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ὀρφανόν (orphanon)

ὀρφανόν is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρφανός, meaning “orphan”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 657: λείψειν ἔμελλες ὀρφανὸν διαρπάσαι.

Aristophanes, Birds 1361: εὔνους, πτερώσω σʼ ὥσπερ ὄρνιν ὀρφανόν.

All forms of ὀρφανός (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.