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καλούμενος (kaloumenos)

καλούμενος is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the present middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 235 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.4: … ρίστωνι τῷ Ἀργείῳ παλαιστῇ· ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ Πλάτων διὰ τὴν εὐεξίαν μετωνομάσθη, πρότερον Ἀριστοκλῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ πάππου καλούμενος [ὄνομα], καθά φησιν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Διαδοχαῖς. ἔνιοι δὲ διὰ τὴν πλατύτητα τῆς ἑρμηνείας οὕτως ὀνομασθῆναι· ἢ ὅτ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 7.6.3·2: … νούμενον ὑφʼ ἑτέρων· οὕτωςἔφην ὁ λόγος, τριῶν ὄντων ὦν ὁ μὲν καλῶν μόνον ὁ δὲ καλούμενος,· ὁ δὲ καὶ καλῶν καὶ καλούμενός ἐστιν, εἴρηται μὲν περὶ τοῦ καλοῦντος· οὐ χεῖρον δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἔφην ἅ γʼ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, διελθεῖν. ὁ …

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.