ῥᾷον (rhaon)

ῥᾷον is an Ancient Greek form of ῥᾴδιος, meaning “easy”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of ῥάιος, “(garbled form of ῥᾴδιος, easy)”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 324 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.57.5: προσέφερε δὲ λόγους καὶ τοῖς ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης Χαλκιδεῦσι καὶ Βοττιαίοις ξυναποστῆναι, νομίζων, εἰ ξύμμαχα ταῦτα ἔχοι ὅμορα ὄντα τὰ χωρία, ῥᾷον ἂν τὸν πόλεμον μετ’ αὐτῶν ποιεῖσθαι.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 3.10.3·3: … εσθαι. Ἀριστοτέλης· δὲ καὶ τὰ τραύματὰ φησι τἀπὸ τῶν χαλκῶν ἐπιδορατίδων καὶ μαχαιρῶν ἧττον εἶναι δυσαλγῆ καὶ ῥᾴονʼ ἰᾶσθαι τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ σιδήρου διὰ τὸ φαρμακῶδες ἔχειν τι τὸν χαλκὸν ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ τοῦτο ταῖς πληγαῖς εὐθὺς ἐναπολ …

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.2·2: … ὴ τοῦ αἵματος Ῥεῖ, διὰ τοῦτο λεπτοτέραν αὐτὴν ἡμῖν ἐστι νομιστέον, εἴθʼ ὅτι διʼ ὀθόνης ἢ Ῥάκους ἤ τινος ἠθμοῦ Ῥᾷον διεξέρχεται καὶ ταύτης τὸ ὀρρῶδες περίττωμα, κατὰ ταῦτα τὰ γνωρίσματα παχυτέρα τῆς ὑδατώδους ὑγρότητος καὶ αὕ …

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.