κλαίειν (klaiein)

κλαίειν is an Ancient Greek form of κλαίω, meaning “weep, lament, wail”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.83: … δʼ αὐτῷ πέμψαντι πρὸς τὸν Βίαντα ἵνα ἥκοι παρʼ αὐτόν, ἐγὼ δέ, φησίν, Ἀλυάττῃ κελεύω κρόμμυα ἐσθίειν, [ἴσον τῷ κλαίειν].

All forms of κλαίω (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.