βούλοιτο (bouloito)

βούλοιτο is an Ancient Greek form of βούλομαι, meaning “to wish, want, prefer”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive optative.

Found 318 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.9.2: … ναι ὃς ἂν καὶ τοῦ σώματός τι καὶ τῆς οὐσίας προνοῆται· μάλιστα γὰρ ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτος καὶ τὰ τῆς πόλεως δι’ ἑαυτὸν βούλοιτο ὀρθοῦσθαι. ὅμως δὲ οὔτε ἐν τῷ πρότερον χρόνῳ διὰ τὸ προτιμᾶσθαι εἶπον παρὰ γνώμην οὔτε νῦν, ἀλλὰ ᾗ ἂν γιγνώσκ …

Euripides, Andromache 595: πασῶν κακίστην. οὐδ’ ἂν εἰ βούλοιτό τις

Procopius, De Bellis 6.29.7: Ἀκούσας δὲ βελισάριος λοιδορεῖσθαί οἱ τῶν ἀρχόντων τινάς, ὡς δὴ ἐπιβουλεύων τοῖς βασιλέως πράγμασι τὸν πόλεμον καταλύειν οὐδαμῶς Βούλοιτο, ξυγκαλέσας ἅπαντας, Δομνίκου τε καὶ Μαξιμίνου παρόντων, ἔλεξε τοιάδε·

All forms of βούλομαι (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.