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μένουσι (menousi)

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

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, The Trojan Women 19: πρὸς ναῦς Ἀχαιῶν πέμπεται· μένουσι δὲ

Euripides, Helen 740: ἀγῶνας οἳ μένουσί μʼ, ὡς ἐλπίζομεν,

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.3.24: … τις τάττοι, οἳ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὁμολογοῦσι μηδεμίαν μάχην ἂν ὑπομεῖναι ἐκ χειρός; προβεβλημένοι δὲ τοὺς θωρακοφόρους μενοῦσί τε, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀκοντίζοντες, οἱ δὲ τοξεύοντες, ὑπὲρ τῶν πρόσθεν πάντων λυμανοῦνται τοὺς πολεμίους. ὅ τι δʼ ἂν …

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.