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διδούς (didous)

διδούς is an Ancient Greek form of δίδωμι, meaning “to give, grant”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 313 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138.2: ἀφικόμενος δὲ μετὰ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν γίγνεται παρ’ αὐτῷ μέγας καὶ ὅσος οὐδείς πω Ἑλλήνων διά τε τὴν προϋπάρχουσαν ἀξίωσιν καὶ τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ ἐλπίδα, ἣν ὑπετίθει αὐτῷ δουλώσειν, μάλιστα δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πεῖραν διδοὺς ξυνετὸς φαίνεσθαι.

Euripides, Hippolytus 449: ἥδ’ ἐστὶν ἡ σπείρουσα καὶ διδοῦσ’ ἔρον

Euripides, Hecuba 946: διδοῦσʼ, ἐπεί με γᾶς ἐκ

All forms of δίδωμι (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.