καθαίρει (kathairei)

καθαίρει is an Ancient Greek form of καθαιρέω, meaning “take down, destroy”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 1: … μὲν ἄρρεν ἐστὶ τὸ δὲ θῆλυ, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀρχὰς κινήσεως ἐνίησι τὸ δʼ ὑποκειμένου καὶ ὕλης δύναμιν· διότι τὸ πῦρ καθαίρει καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ἁγνίζει, δεῖ δὲ καθαρὰν καὶ ἁγνὴν διαμένειν τὴν γαμηθεῖσαν; ὅτι, καθάπερ τὸ πῦρ χωρὶς ὑγρότητος ἄ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 7.5.3·2: … ὁ λογισμὸς ἐλλίπῃ διαμαχόμενος, ἀλλὰ τῶν παθῶν ἔνια πολλάκις ἐμποδών ἐστι· καὶ γὰρ ἐν ἰχθύων ἀγορᾷ μικρολογία καθαιρεῖ δάκτυλον ὀψοφάγου καὶ πολυτελοῦς ἑταίρας ἀπέστρεψε φιλαργυρία φιλογυνίαν· ὥσπερ ἀμέλει παρὰ τῷ Μενάνδρῳ τῶν σ …

All forms of καθαιρέω (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.