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λαμβάνουσα (lambanousa)

λαμβάνουσα is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the present active participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 29.5: … ς σχεδὸν ἁπάντων κατατετρωμένων αὐτοῖς, πεπτωκότων δὲ πολλῶν, ἡ δ̓· ἀγαθὴ τύχη τῆς πόλεως, εἴτε πεῖραν ἀρετῆς λαμβάνουσα τῶν ἀνδρῶν, εἴθʼ ἑαυτῆς, ὅσην ἐν ἀπόροις ἔχει δύναμιν, ἀπόδειξιν διδοῦσα,

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.