ζήτησιν (zetesin)

ζήτησιν is an Ancient Greek form of ζήτησις, meaning “search, inquiry”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 155 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.53.2: οἱ γὰρ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐπειδὴ ἡ στρατιὰ ἀπέπλευσεν, οὐδὲν ἧσσον ζήτησιν ἐποιοῦντο τῶν περὶ τὰ μυστήρια καὶ τῶν περὶ τοὺς Ἑρμᾶς δρασθέντων, καὶ οὐ δοκιμάζοντες τοὺς μηνυτάς, ἀλλὰ πάν …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.57.4: … όξῳ συμφορᾷ καὶ οὐδὲ φωνὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ ῥῆξαι δυνάμενον ἀποκτείνουσι βάλλοντες λίθοις· τὴν δὲ κατὰ τῶν ἄλλων ζήτησίν τε καὶ τιμωρίαν τῶν ταὐτὰ τῷ Πέτρωνι βουλευσαμένων ἐπέτρεψαν τῷ Σέξτῳ ποιήσασθαι. ὁ δὲ τοῖς ἰδίοις ἑταίροις τ …

All forms of ζήτησις (declension 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.