κρῖναι (krinai)

κρῖναι is an Ancient Greek form of κρίνω, meaning “judge, decide, separate”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 124 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138.3: … τον τοῦ γενησομένου ἄριστος εἰκαστής· καὶ ἃ μὲν μετὰ χεῖρας ἔχοι, καὶ ἐξηγήσασθαι οἷός τε, ὧν δ’ ἄπειρος εἴη, κρῖναι ἱκανῶς οὐκ ἀπήλλακτο· τό τε ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ ἔτι προεώρα μάλιστα. καὶ τὸ ξύμπαν εἰπεῖν φύσεως μὲ …

Plutarch, De Vitioso Pudore 15: … καὶ τὸ τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους ἐπιεικέστερόν ἐστι, καὶ μετριώτερον. ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἀγησίλαος ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς κελευόμενος κρῖναί τινα δίκην παρὰ τὸν νόμον, ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ σοῦ· ἔφη πάτερ, πείθεσθαι τοῖς νόμοις ἐδιδασκόμην ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς· διὸ καὶ νῦν …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi Marini 7.2: … ἄπιτε δὲ ἐς τὴν Ἴδην παρὰ τὸν Πριάμου παῖδα, ὃς οἶδέ τε διαγνῶναι τὸ κάλλιον φιλόκαλος ὤν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐκεῖνος κρίναι κακῶς. Τί οὖν αἱ θεαί, ὦ Πανόπη; Τήμερον, οἶμαι, ἀπίασιν εἰς τὴν Ἴδην, καί τις ἥξει μετὰ μικρὸν ἀπαγγέλλων ἡμ …

All forms of κρίνω (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.