ῥᾴων (rhaon)

ῥᾴων is an Ancient Greek form of ῥᾴδιος, meaning “easy”.

It can also be a form of ῥαίω, “shatter”.

It can also be a form of ῥάιος, “(garbled form of ῥᾴδιος, easy)”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective or genitive plural adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.4.4: … τι δὲ ἄκρα ἀντιπέρας τῆς πόλεως, ἥπερ προύχουσα τοῦ μεγάλου λιμένος τὸ στόμα στενὸν ποιεῖ, καὶ εἰ τειχισθείη, ῥᾴων αὐτῷ ἐφαίνετο ἡ ἐσκομιδὴ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἔσεσθαι· δι’ ἐλάσσονος γὰρ πρὸς τῷ λιμένι τῷ τῶν Συρακοσίων ἐφορμήσει …

Hippocrates, De fracturis 4: τῶν δὲ ὀστέων τοῦ πήχεος, ὧν μὴ ἀμφότερα κατέηγε, ῤᾴων ἡ ἴησις, ἢν τὸ ἄνω ὀστέον τετρωμένον ἔῃ, καί περ παχύτερον ἐόν· ἅμα μὲν ὅτι τὸ ὑγιὲς ὑποτεταμένον γίνεται ἀντ …

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.