εἰσιέναι (eisienai)

εἰσιέναι is an Ancient Greek form of εἴσειμι, meaning “go in, enter”.

It can also be a form of εἰσίημι, “send in”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 130 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.64: Ἐν ἱερῷ δειπνῶν, μεταξὺ ῥυπαρῶν ἄρτων παρατεθέντων, ἄρας αὐτοὺς ἔρριψεν, εἰπὼν εἰς ἱερὸν μηδὲν δεῖν ῥυπαρὸν εἰσιέναι. πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, οὐδὲν εἰδὼς φιλοσοφεῖς, ἔφη, εἰ καὶ προσποιοῦμαι σοφίαν, καὶ τοῦτο φιλοσοφεῖν ἐστι. πρὸς τ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 9.4: … Παννυχί, τοῦτον δὲ παρ' Ὀδρύσαις χιλιαρχεῖν ἔα. Ἐλευθέρα μέν ἐστι καὶ ἀκολουθήσει, ἢν ἐθέλῃ. Τί ποιῶ, Δορκάς; Εἰσιέναι ἄμεινον, ὀργιζομένῳ οὐχ οἷόν τε παρεῖναι Πολέμωνι, καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπιταθήσεται ζηλοτυπῶν. Εἰ θέλεις, εἰσίωμεν.

All forms of εἴσειμι (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.