μένει (menei)

μένει is an Ancient Greek form of μένω, meaning “to stay, wait, remain”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

It can also be a form of μένος, “might, strength, spirit, rage”.

Found 368 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.6: μοῖρα μένει στυγερή, τοῦδʼ ἀνέρος, ὅντινʼ ἴδοιτο

Euripides, Ion 1038: κλεινὰς Ἀθήνας, κατθανὼν δʼ αὐτοῦ μενεῖ.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 44.18.1: … οῦ Καίσαρος, δείσαντες οἱ συνωμόται μὴ ἀναβολῆς γενομένης (θροῦς γάρ τις διῆλθεν ὅτι οἴκοι τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην μενεἶ τό τε ἐπιβούλευμά σφισι διαπέσῃ καὶ αὐτοὶ φωραθῶσι, πέμπουσι τὸν Βροῦτον τὸν Δέκιμον, ὅπως ὡς καὶ πάνυ φίλος …

All forms of μένω (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.