εἰπεῖν (eipein)

εἰπεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of εἶπον, meaning “to speak, say”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 4,132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.26: παιδὶ ἑῷ εἰπεῖν ὀτρύνομεν, αἴ κε πίθηται

Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero 1.5: … ς δὲ λαμπροὺ κατιόντος ἐκ τῶν περιεστώτων προς τους δικαστάς, ἡσυχῆ διαμειδιάσας ὁ Κάτων προς τοὺς καθήμενους εἰπεὶν ὠς γελοῖον, ὦ ἀνδρες, ἔχομεν ὕπατον.

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 21·2: … οὺς ἄρχοντας αὐτῶν, Ἄρσαλον καὶ Δρύον καὶ Τρωσοβιόν, ἔφυγε καὶ μετεχώρησεν ὁποιδήποτε ʽ τοῦτο γὰρ οὐκ ἔχουσιν εἰπεῖν̓, ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀμεληθῆναι, τοὺς δὲ περὶ τὸν Ἄρσαλον σκληροὺς θεοὺς προσαγορεύεσθαι, καὶ τὰς κατάρας ἐπὶ τούτων …

All forms of εἶπον (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.