ὀρεινή (oreine)

ὀρεινή is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρεινός, meaning “mountainous”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.3: … λῇ, καὶ ἱππεύειν μανθάνων ὑπερέχαιρεν· ἐν Πέρσαις γὰρ διὰ τὸ χαλεπὸν εἶναι καὶ τρέφειν ἵππους καὶ ἱππεύειν ἐν ὀρεινῇ οὔσῃ τῇ χώρᾳ καὶ ἰδεῖν ἵππον πάνυ σπάνιον ἦν.

Strabo, Geography 2.5.28: … ή· συνάγεται γὰρ εἰς ἰσθμὸν ἐλαττόνων μὲν ἢ τρισχιλίων σταδίων, πλειόνων δʼ ἢ δισχιλίων. μεταξὺ δέ ἐστι ῥάχις ὀρεινὴ πρὸς ὀρθὰς τῇ Πυρήνῃ, τὸ καλούμενον Κέμμενον ὄρος· τελευτᾷ δὲ τοῦτο εἰς μεσαίτατα τὰ Κελτῶν πεδία. τῶν δὲ Ἄλπ …

All forms of ὀρεινός (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.