ζητεῖν (zetein)

ζητεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of ζητέω, meaning “seek”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 465 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.77: … σημαίνων τὸν νόμον. ἔλεγε δὲ καὶ τὰς νίκας ἄνευ αἵματος ποιεῖσθαι. ἔφη δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸν Φωκαϊκὸν φάσκοντα δεῖν ζητεῖν ἄνθρωπον σπουδαῖον, ἂν λίαν, ἔφη, ζητῇς, οὐχ εὑρήσεις. καὶ πρὸς τοὺς πυνθανομένους τί εὐχάριστον, χρόνος, ἔφη …

All forms of ζητέω (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.