κρατεῖ (kratei)

κρατεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of κρατέω, meaning “rule, be master of, prevail”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

It can also be a form of κράτος, “strength, power, rule”.

Found 182 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.384: ᾧ κράτεϊ βρίσαντες ἰῇ στυφέλιξαν ἐρωῇ

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.29.3: … ἀλλήλους μᾶλλον ἢ διὰ πολλῶν ἡμερῶν ἐς Ὀδρύσας ὁδοῦ. Τήρης δὲ οὐδὲ τὸ αὐτὸ ὄνομα ἔχων βασιλεύς [τε] πρῶτος ἐν κράτει Ὀδρυσῶν ἐγένετο.

Hesiod, Theogony 49: ὅσσον φέρτατός ἐστι θεῶν κράτεί τε μέγιστος.

All forms of κρατέω (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.