αἰνίττεται (ainittetai)

αἰνίττεται is an Ancient Greek form of αἰνίσσομαι, meaning “speak in riddles, hint”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.84: … εινότατος γεγονέναι εἰπεῖν. ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ μέντοι τῇ τῶν λόγων ἰσχύϊ προσεχρῆτο. ὅθεν καὶ Δημόδικος ὁ Λέριος τοῦτο αἰνίττεται λέγων· ἢν τύχῃς κρίνων δικάζευ τὴν Πριηνίην δίκην· καὶ Ἱππῶναξ· ἃ καὶ δικάζεσθαι Βίαντος τοῦ Πριηνέως κρεῖσσο …

Plutarch, Numa 14.5: εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις τροχοῖς αἰνίττεταί τι καὶ διδάσκει παραπλήσιον ἡ μεταβολὴ τοῦ σχήματος, ὡς οὐδενὸς ἑστῶτος τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων, ἀλλʼ ὅπως ἂν στρέφῃ κ …

All forms of αἰνίσσομαι (conjugation 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.