θείς (theis)

θείς is an Ancient Greek form of τίθημι, meaning “to put, place, set; make”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of στερέω, “deprive”.

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.9.108: … εῖναι τῷ τυράννῳ, χωρὶς Πλάτωνος τοῦ φιλοσόφου. μέμνηται γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὗτος ἐν τῷ Πρωταγόρᾳ, ἀντὶ Περιάνδρου θεὶς αὐτόν. Ἔφασκε δὲ μὴ ἐκ τῶν λόγων τὰ πράγματα, ἀλλʼ ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων τοὺς λόγους ζητεῖν· οὐ γὰρ ἕνεκα τῶν λόγω …

Euripides, Orestes 234: χρόνιον ἴχνος θείς; μεταβολὴ πάντων γλυκύ.

Aristophanes, Acharnians 564: οὗτος σὺ ποῖ θεῖς; οὐ μενεῖς; ὡς εἰ θενεῖς

All forms of τίθημι (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.