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δύνῃ (dyne)

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

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

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.86: … οῖνιξ καὶ τὸ μηδενὸς μέλειν. φέρεται δʼ αὐτοῦ κἀκεῖνο· ἔρωτα παύει λιμός, εἰ δὲ μή, χρόνος· ἐὰν δὲ τούτοις μὴ δύνῃ χρῆσθαι, βρόχος.

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.