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διανοῇ (dianoe)

διανοῇ is an Ancient Greek form of διανοέομαι, meaning “intend, think through”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

It can also be a form of διανοέω, “intend, plan”.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marius 8.3: … ὶ ποτε τοῦ Μαρίου παρόντος οἷον ἐφυβρίζων ὁ Μέτελλος εἰπεῖν, σὺ δὴ καταλιπὼν ἡμᾶς, ὦ γενναῖε, πλεῖν ἐπʼ οἴκου διανοῇ καὶ παραγγέλλειν ὑπατείαν; οὐ γάρ ἀγαπήσεις, ἂν τᾠμῷ παιδὶ τούτῳ συνυπατεύσῃς; ἦν δ’ ὁ παῖς τότε τοῦ Μετέλλου …

Plato, Symposium 207: … ὰ δὲ θηρία τίς αἰτία οὕτως ἐρωτικῶς διατίθεσθαι; ἔχεις λέγειν; καὶ ἐγὼ αὖ ἔλεγον ὅτι οὐκ εἰδείην· ἣ δʼ εἶπεν, Διανοῇ οὖν δεινός ποτε γενήσεσθαι τὰ ἐρωτικά, ἐὰν ταῦτα μὴ ἐννοῇς; ἀλλὰ διὰ ταῦτά τοι, ὦ Διοτίμα, ὅπερ νυνδὴ εἶπον, …

All forms of διανοέομαι (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.