αἴρεται (airetai)

αἴρεται is an Ancient Greek form of αἴρω, meaning “lift, raise, take up”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

It can also be a form of αἱρετός, “capturable; chosen”.

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

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Electra 749: ἰδού, τάδʼ οὐκ ἄσημα πνεύματʼ αἴρεται·

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.43.1: … πολλοῖς τραύμασι καταπονηθεὶς καὶ δὴ καὶ λίθου πληγῇ ἐξαισίῳ κατὰ κροτάφου ἐνεχθέντος ἐκ τῶν ἄνωθεν κακωθείς, αἴρεταί τε πρὸς τῶν παρόντων ἡμιθανὴς καὶ εἰς τὸ

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.1: … αὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἅπαντες οἱ νοῦν ἔχοντες. μικταὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσιν αἱ τοιαῦται πράξεις, ἐοίκασι δὲ μᾶλλον ἑκουσίοις· αἱρεταὶ γάρ εἰσι τότε ὅτε πράττονται, τὸ δὲ τέλος τῆς πράξεως κατὰ τὸν καιρόν ἐστιν. καὶ τὸ ἑκούσιον δὴ καὶ τὸ ἀκούσι …

All forms of αἴρω (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.