ῥᾴδιον (rhadion)

ῥᾴδιον is an Ancient Greek form of ῥᾴδιος, meaning “easy”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ῥαίδιον, “(label letter or garbled form)”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun.

Found 734 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.82.6: ἐγκλήματα μὲν γὰρ καὶ πόλεων καὶ ἰδιωτῶν οἷόν τε καταλῦσαι· πόλεμον δὲ ξύμπαντας ἀραμένους ἕνεκα τῶν ἰδίων, ὃν οὐχ ὑπάρχει εἰδέναι καθ’ ὅτι χωρήσει, οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὐπρεπῶς θέσθαι.

Isocrates, Against Callimachus 36: … ὺς ἐντυγχάνοντας κολάζετε. ἐγὼ δʼ οὔθʼ ὑμᾶς ταύτην ἔχειν τὴν γνώμην ἡγοῦμαι, πρὸς τε τοὺς ὑπειρημένους λόγους ῥᾲδιον ἁντειπεῖν νομίζω.

Lucian of Samosata, Saturnalia 11: … νεσμεν; ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ σύ, ὦ δέσποτα, θέλεις παῦσαι ταῦτα καὶ μετακοσμῆσαι πρὸς τὸ ἰσόμοιρον. Τὰ μὲν ἄλλα, ἔφη, οὐ ῥάδιον ἀλλάττειν ὁπόσα ἐκ Κλωθοῦς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Μοιρῶν πάσχετε, ἃ δέ ἐστι τῆς ἑορτῆς, ἐπανορθώσομαι ὑμῖν τὴν πενίαν. …

All forms of ῥᾴδιος (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.