καλεῖς (kaleis)

καλεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 135 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.31: … ρως πολλὰ καμὼν ἐλύθη μένων ἄσιτος· οἱ δʼ, ὅτι προσκόψας ποτʼ ἔφη χερὶ γαῖαν ἀλοίσας ἔρχομαι αὐτόματος· τί δὴ καλεῖς με; ἔνιοι γὰρ καὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον τελευτῆσαί φασιν αὐτόν. Καὶ περὶ μὲν τῆς τελευτῆς ταῦτα. Φησὶ δὲ Δημήτριο …

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 432: οὐδʼ ἱκόμην ἔγωγʼ ἄν, εἰ σὺ μὴ ʼκάλεις.

All forms of καλέω (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.