καλεῖται (kaleitai)

καλεῖται is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 597 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.104.2: … ες ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἐς τὸν Νεῖλον τοῦ τε ποταμοῦ κρατοῦντες καὶ τῆς Μέμφιδος τῶν δύο μερῶν πρὸς τὸ τρίτον μέρος ὃ καλεῖται Λευκὸν τεῖχος ἐπολέμουν· ἐνῆσαν δὲ αὐτόθι Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων οἱ καταφυγόντες καὶ Αἰγυπτίων οἱ μὴ ξυναποστάντες.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1: … ὁ λόγος· Πελασγοῦ καὶ Δηιανείρης γίνεται Λυκάων· οὗτος γαμεῖ Κυλλήνην, Νηίδα νύμφην, ἀφʼ ἧς τὸ ὄρος ἡ Κυλλήνη καλεῖταἰ. ἔπειτα τοὺς ἐκ τούτων γεννηθέντας διεξιὼν καὶ τίνας ἕκαστοι τόπους ᾤκησαν, Οἰνώτρου καὶ Πευκετίου μιμνήσκετα …

Strabo, Geography 7.5.8: … χον ῥεῖν εἰς Ἄργος πρὸς νότον καὶ τὸν Αἴαντα πρὸς ἑσπέραν καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ἀδρίαν. ἐν δὲ τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἀπολλωνιατῶν καλεῖταί τι νυμφαῖον· πέτρα δʼ ἐστὶ πῦρ ἀναδιδοῦσα, ὑπʼ αὐτῇ δὲ κρῆναι ῥέουσι χλιαροῦ καὶ ἀσφάλτου, καιομένης, ὡς εἰκό …

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.