θανεῖν (thanein)

θανεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of θνήσκω, meaning “die, be dying”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 288 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.3.15: … όσμου, κεῖται Ἀναξαγόρας. Ἔστι καὶ ἡμῶν εἰς αὐτόν· ἠέλιον πυρόεντα μύδρον ποτὲ φάσκεν ὑπάρχειν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο θανεῖν μέλλεν Ἀναξαγόρας· ἀλλʼ ὁ φίλος Περικλῆς μὲν ἐρύσατο τοῦτον, ὁ δʼ αὑτὸν ἐξάγαγεν βιότου μαλθακίῃ σοφίης. Γεγό …

All forms of θνήσκω (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.