ζητῶν (zeton)

ζητῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ζητέω, meaning “seek”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 185 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.58: … ἰς τοῦτον ἡμῶν ἐπιγράμματα τοῦτον ἔχοντα τὸν τρόπον· οὐ μόνον εἰς Πέρσας ἀνέβη Ξενοφῶν διὰ Κῦρον, ἀλλʼ ἄνοδον ζητῶν ἐς Διὸς ἥτις ἄγοι. παιδείης γὰρ ἑῆς Ἑλληνικὰ πράγματα δείξας, ὡς καλὸν ἡ σοφίη μνήσατο Σωκράτεος. ἄλλο, ὡς ἐτ …

Lucian of Samosata, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem 19: … ης ἔργον — ἁρπάσας διέσπασεν αὐτὸ εἰπών, ἄμεινόν ἐστι τῷ Πενθεῖ ἅπαξ σπαραχθῆναι ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ ἢ ὑπὸ σοῦ πολλάκις. Ζητῶν δὲ ἀεὶ πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν οὔπω καὶ τήμερον εὑρεῖν δεδύνημαι τίνος ἕνεκα τὴν σπουδὴν ταύτην ἐσπούδακας περὶ τὴν ὠνὴν …

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.