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δύναιο (dynaio)

δύναιο is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive optative.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 63: οὐκ ἂν δύναιο πάντ’ ἔχειν ἃ μή σε δεῖ.

Plato, Statesman 272: … τόνδε δʼ ὃν λόγος ἐπὶ Διὸς εἶναι, τὸν νυνί, παρὼν αὐτὸς ᾔσθησαι· κρῖναι δʼ αὐτοῖν τὸν εὐδαιμονέστερον ἆρʼ ἂν δύναιό τε καὶ ἐθελήσειας; οὐδαμῶς. βούλει δῆτα ἐγώ σοι τρόπον τινὰ διακρίνω; πάνυ μὲν οὖν. εἰ μὲν τοίνυν οἱ τρόφιμοι …

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.