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θέλοντες (thelontes)

θέλοντες is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 939: τέρψαι θέλοντες σὴν φρένʼ· ἐκ γὰρ εὐτυχοῦς

New Testament, Luke 8.20: ἀπηγγέλη δὲ αὐτῷ Ἡ μήτηρ σου καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί σου ἑστήκασιν ἔξω ἰδεῖν θέλοντές σε.

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.