δέχου (dechou)

δέχου is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive imperative.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 375: ἐπὶ τοῖσδε παῖδας χειρὸς ἐξ ἐμῆς δέχου.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 63: … ῦτον; πῶς γοῦν ἠδυνάμην ἐμαυτοῦ κρατῆσαι, πρὸς τὸ μὴ οὐχὶ καὶ ἐκβοῶν τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐμαυτοῦ πάθος διασημαίνειν; Δέχου τοίνυν τὴν προσηγορίαν, ὦ θαυμάσιε, ἐκ φιλίας ἀληθινῆς καὶ ἀδόλου σοι προσαγομένην· πόρρω γὰρ θωπείας δουλοπρ …

All forms of δέχομαι (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.