ὀξύ (oxy)

ὀξύ is an Ancient Greek form of ὀξύς, meaning “sharp, keen, piercing”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 222 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.262: μήτηρ δʼ ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν βεβολημένη. ὀξὺ δʼ ἑκάστην

Aesop, Fables 350b: Παῖς τις θηρεύων ἀκρίδας περιέτυχε σκορπίῳ. Ὁ δὲ τὸ τοῦ παιδὸς ἁπλοῦν θεασάμενος, τὸ κέντρον ὀξυ νας, εἶπεν· “ἄπελθε, παῖ, μὴ κἀμὲ θηρεύων πάντας, οὓς ἔχεις, ἀπολέσῃς.“ Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι καλόν ἐστι τὰ ἐναν …

All forms of ὀξύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.