θνήσκειν (thneskein)

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

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 672: θνῄσκειν, τὸ γῆρας δ’ οὐκέτ’ ἔστ’ αὐτοῖς βαρύ.

Plutarch, Otho 14.2: καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν ἔφη ζητῶν οὔτε αὐτὸς εὑρεῖν οὔτε παρʼ ἄλλου του πυθέσθαι. θνήσκειν μὲν γὰρ παρά τοὺς ἐμφυλίους πολέμους, ὅταν τροπὴ γένηται, πλείονας εἰκός ἐστι ι, τῷ μηδέν α ζωγρεῖν, χρῆσθαι …

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.