αἱρετά (haireta)

αἱρετά is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρετός, meaning “capturable; chosen”.

It can also be a form of αἱρετής, “(garbled form)”. It is the nominative dual masculine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis 18·2: … ευκτόν, ἀλλὰ μόνον αἱρετὸν τἀγαθὸν καὶ μόνον φευκτὸν ἡγοῦνται τὸ κακόν. ὥστε συμβαίνει κατʼ αὐτοὺς μὴ πρὸς τὰ αἱρετὰ μηδὲ πρὸς τὰ φευκτὰ τοὺς τῶν πράξεων γίγνεσθαι λογισμούς, ἑτέρων στοχαζομένους ἃ μήτε φεύγουσι μήθʼ αἱροῦνται …

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8.3: … ν κατὰ τὰ ὀνόματα, ἀλλὰ καθʼ αὑτὰ ἔχοντα διαφοράν. τῶν γὰρ ἀγαθῶν πάντων τέλη ἐστίν, ἃ αὐτὰ αὑτῶν ἕνεκά ἐστιν αἱρετά. τούτων δὲ καλά, ὅσα διʼ αὑτὰ ὄντα πάντα ἐπαινετὰ ἐστίν. ταῦτα γάρ ἐστιν ἀφʼ ὧν αἵ τε πράξεις εἰσὶν ἐπαινεταὶ …

All forms of αἱρετός (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.