ῥητήν (rheten)

ῥητήν is an Ancient Greek form of ῥητός, meaning “stated, specified; expressible”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 102 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.67.1: … δέκα ἄνδρας ἑλέσθαι ξυγγραφέας αὐτοκράτορας, τούτους δὲ ξυγγράψαντας γνώμην ἐσενεγκεῖν ἐς τὸν δῆμον ἐς ἡμέραν ῥητὴν καθ’ ὅτι ἄριστα ἡ πόλις οἰκήσεται·

Lucian of Samosata, Alexander 19: … λαμβάνων — ἐκεῖθεν οὖν τὸ ἐνδόσιμον λαβὼν ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος προλέγει πᾶσι τοῖς ἀφικομένοις ὡς μαντεύσεται ὁ θεός, ῥητήν τινα ἡμέραν προειπών. ἐκέλευσεν δὲ ἕκαστον, οὗ δέοιτο ἂν καὶ ὃ μάλιστα μαθεῖν ἐθέλοι, εἰς βιβλίον ἐγγράψαντα …

All forms of ῥητός (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.