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ὀρθαί (orthai)

ὀρθαί is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρθός, meaning “straight, upright, correct”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of ὄρνυμι, “to rouse, stir up, urge on”.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 693: ἀνῇξαν ὀρθαί, θαῦμʼ ἰδεῖν εὐκοσμίας,

All forms of ὀρθός (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.