θαρρεῖν (tharrein)

θαρρεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of θαρσέω, meaning “be bold, take courage”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 280 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.90: … ῆς αἴτιον τοῦ ἐπιθυμεῖν φαγεῖν καὶ τοῦ πλησιάσαι καὶ τῶν τοιούτων πάντων. τὸ δὲ θυμικὸν μέρος αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ θαρρεῖν καὶ ἥδεσθαι καὶ λυπεῖσθαι καὶ ὀργίζεσθαι. τῆς ἄρα ψυχῆς ἐστι τὸ μὲν λογιστικόν, τὸ δὲ ἐπιθυμητικόν, τὸ δὲ θυμ …

Aesop, Fables 62: … κ τῆς πολλῆς πόσεως μεθυσθεὶς ὑπὲρ κόρον, οὐδὲ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτὴν, ὅθεν ἐξῆλθον, οἶδα.“ Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οὐ δεῖ θαῤῥεῖν τοῖς ἐξ ἀλλοτρίων εὖ ποιεῖν ἐπαγγελλομένοις.

All forms of θαρσέω (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.