θιγεῖν (thigein)

θιγεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of θιγγάνω, meaning “touch”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 1117: τόλμα προτεῖναι χεῖρα καὶ θιγεῖν ξένης.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 2.1·2: … βραχίονες καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἰσχνὰ, οἰδέουσι ὄρχιές τε καὶ πόσθη, καὶ ὁ ξύμπας καυλὸς σκολιὸς ἐξ ἀνίσου τοῦ οἴδεος. θίγειν ἠδὲ ἐρείσαν τά πη τὴν χεῖρα κατὰ λαγόνα εἰσωθεῖν· τὸ γὰρ ὑγρὸν ἐπὶ τὰ ἄλλα μέρεα μεταρρέει· ἀτὰρ καὶ ἐν τῇσι …

All forms of θιγγάνω (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.