δύναιτʼ (dynait)

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

It can also be a form of δύω, “go into, sink, put on; set (of the sun)”.

Found 109 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.170: καί ποτʼ ἀθροισθὲν τὸ κέρμα ἐκόμισεν εἰς μέσον τῶν γνωρίμων καί φησι, Κλεάνθης μὲν καὶ ἄλλον Κλεάνθην δύναιτʼ ἂν τρέφειν, εἰ βούλοιτο· οἱ δʼ ἔχοντες ὅθεν τραφήσονται παρʼ ἑτέρων ἐπιζητοῦσι τἀπιτήδεια, καίπερ ἀνειμένως φ …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 7.16.101: … οὐ καλῶς. κρίνουσι, δι᾿ ἣν δὲ οὐκ ἰσχύουσι τοῖς ὀρθῶς κριθεῖσιν ἀκολουθεῖν· οὔτε γὰρ ἀπατηθείς τις τὴν γνώμην δύναιτ᾿ ἂν εὖ πράττειν, κἂν πάνυ δυνατὸς ᾖ τὰ γνωσθέντα ποιεῖν, οὔτε καὶ κρίνειν τὸ δέον ἰσχύων ἄμεμπτον ἑαυτὸν παράσ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 4.8.5: … ακίᾳ καὶ φιληδονίᾳ ὑπάρχειν αὐτούς· τίς γὰρ φιλήδονος ἢ ἀκρατὴς καὶ ἀνθρωπείων σαρκῶν βορὰν ἡγούμενος ἀγαθόν, δύναιτ’ ἂν θάνατον ἀσπάζεσθαι, ὅπως τῶν ἑαυτοῦ στερηθείη ἐπιθυμιῶν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐκ παντὸς ζῆν ἀεὶ τὴν ἐνθάδε βιοτὴν καὶ …

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.