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δυνηθείη (dynetheie)

δυνηθείη is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist passive optative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De recta ratione audiendi 6·2: … ρ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος ἀκούσας ὅτι Φίλιππος Ὄλυνθον κατέσκαψεν ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀναστῆσαί γε τοιαύτην ἔφη πόλιν ἐκεῖνος ἂν δυνηθείη. ὅταν οὖν ἐν τῷ διαλέγεσθαι πρὸς τὴν τοιαύτην ὑπόθεσιν μὴ πολὺ φαινώμεθα τῶν εἰρηκότων διαφέροντες, πολὺ τοῦ …

All forms of δύναμαι (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.