εἴδη (eide)

εἴδη is an Ancient Greek form of οἶδα, meaning “to know”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of εἶδος, “form, appearance, kind”.

Found 506 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.41.1: ‘ξυνελών τε λέγω τήν τε πᾶσαν πόλιν τῆς Ἑλλάδος παίδευσιν εἶναι καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον δοκεῖν ἄν μοι τὸν αὐτὸν ἄνδρα παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐπὶ πλεῖστ᾽ ἂν εἴδη καὶ μετὰ χαρίτων μάλιστ’ ἂν εὐτραπέλως τὸ σῶμα αὔταρκες παρέχεσθαι.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.14: … οὖν. — οὐκ οὖν δοκεῖς οὕτως ἔχειν 〈κα〉 καὶ περὶ τἀγαθοῦ; τὸ μὲν ἀγαθόν τι πρᾶγμʼ εἶμεν καθʼ αὕθʼ, ὅστις δέ κα εἰδῇ μαθὼν τῆνʼ, ἀγαθὸς ἤδη γίγνεται. ὥσπερ γάρ ἐστʼ αὔλησιν αὐλητὰς μαθὼν ἢ ὄρχησιν ὀρχηστάς τις ἢ πλοκεὺς πλοκάν …

All forms of οἶδα (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.