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δότε (dote)

δότε is an Ancient Greek form of δίδωμι, meaning “to give, grant”. It is the 2nd person plural aorist active imperative.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.9.64: … ὶ διαλύσει. μαθών τε Ἀντίπατρον φάρμακον πιόντα ἀποθανεῖν, παρωρμήθη πρὸς τὸ εὐθαρσὲς τῆς ἀπαλλαγῆς καί φησι, δότε οὖν κἀμοί· τῶν δὲ εἰπόντων, τί; οἰνόμελι εἶπεν. τελευτῶντος δʼ αὐτοῦ φασιν ἔκλειψιν γενέσθαι σελήνης, συμπάθε …

New Testament, Matthew 25.8: αἱ δὲ μωραὶ ταῖς φρονίμοις εἶπαν Δότε ἡμῖν ἐκ τοῦ ἐλαίου ὑμῶν, ὅτι αἱ λαμπάδες ἡμῶν σβέννυνται.

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.