ζητῶ (zeto)

ζητῶ is an Ancient Greek form of ζάω, meaning “live”. It is the 3rd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of ζητέω, “seek”. It is the 1st person singular present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of ζέω, “boil”.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.41: … ημαγωγοὺς ὄχλου διακόνους, τοὺς δὲ στεφάνους δόξης ἐξανθήματα. λύχνον μεθʼ ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ. εἱστήκει ποτε κατακρουνιζόμενος· τῶν δὲ περιεστώτων ἐλεούντων, παρὼν Πλάτων ἔφη, εἰ βούλεσθʼ αὐτὸν ἐλεῆσαι, …

Plato, Laws 12.952: … συγγιγνέσθω μήτε νέῳ μήτε πρεσβυτέρῳ προσποιούμενος εἶναι σοφός· καὶ ἐὰν μὲν πείθηται τοῖς ἄρχουσιν, ἰδιώτης ζήτω, ἐὰν δὲ μή, τεθνάτω, ἐάν γʼ ἐν δικαστηρίῳ ἁλῷ πολυπραγμονῶν τι περὶ τὴν παιδείαν καὶ τοὺς νόμους. ἐὰν δὲ ἄξιο …

All forms of ζάω (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.