ὄγδοον (ogdoon)

ὄγδοον is an Ancient Greek form of ὄγδοος, meaning “eighth”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.116.3: καὶ ὁ μὲν τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ χειμῶνος ἅ τε εἶχε τῶν χωρίων καθίστατο καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐπεβούλευεν· καὶ τοῦ χειμῶνος διελθόντος ὄγδοον ἔτος ἐτελεύτα τῷ πολέμῳ.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.87: … θʼ ἡμέραν ὁρᾶται. τὸν ἔνατον Φαβωρῖνος ὄγδοον, Σέξτος δὲ καὶ Αἰνεσίδημος δέκατον· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν δέκατον Σέξτος ὄγδοόν φησι, Φαβωρῖνος δὲ ἔνατον. Δέκατος ὁ κατὰ τὴν πρὸς ἄλλα σύμβλησιν, καθάπερ τὸ κοῦφον παρὰ τὸ βαρύ, τὸ ἰσχυρὸν …

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 30: … σίους ἐν μέρει τιθῶμεν, ὡς αὐτὸς ὑφηγεῖται, γενήσονται κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς, ὅπου μὲν τὸ δεύτερον καὶ τὸ τέταρτον καὶ ὃγδοον ὅπου δὲ τρίτον καὶ ἔννατον καὶ εἰκοστοέβδομον, συνάπαντες μὲν ἑπτά, κοινῆς δὲ λαμβανομένης τῆς μονάδος, ἄχρι …

All forms of ὄγδοος (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.