καλοῦσι (kalousi)

καλοῦσι is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 552 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.3.2: … ῆς χώρας· ἀπέχει γὰρ σταδίους μάλιστα ἡ Πύλος τῆς Σπάρτης τετρακοσίους καὶ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ Μεσσηνίᾳ ποτὲ οὔσῃ γῇ, καλοῦσι δὲ αὐτὴν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι Κορυφάσιον.

Euripides, Helen 821: οὔκ, ἀλλʼ ἀδελφή· Θεονόην καλοῦσί νιν.

Procopius, De Bellis 4.12.17: … οσαῦτα παρακελευσάμενος Σολόμων, Θεόδωρον ἐκέλευεν, ὃς τῶν ἐξκουβιτώρων ἡγεῖτο ʽοὕτω γὰρ τοὺς φύλακας Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσἰ, πεζοὺς χιλίους ἐπαγαγόμενον ἀμφὶ δείλην ὀψίαν ἔχοντά τε καὶ τῶν σημείων τινὰ ἐς τὰ πρὸς ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιον τοῦ …

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.