θέλεις (theleis)

θέλεις is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 380 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.70: Αἴνιγμά τινος αὐτῷ προτείναντος καὶ εἰπόντος, λῦσον, τί, ὦ μάταιε, ἔφη, λῦσαι θέλεις, ὃ καὶ δεδεμένον ἡμῖν πράγματα παρέχει; ἄμεινον ἔφη ἐπαίτην ἢ ἀπαίδευτον εἶναι· οἱ μὲν γὰρ χρημάτων, οἱ δʼ ἀν …

New Testament, Matthew 13.28: ὁ δὲ ἔφη αὐτοῖς Ἐχθρὸς ἄνθρωπος τοῦτο ἐποίησεν. οἱ δὲ αὐτῷ λέγουσιν Θέλεις οὖν ἀπελθόντες συλλέξωμεν αὐτά;

All forms of ἐθέλω (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.