μελετᾶν (meletan)

μελετᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of μελετάω, meaning “practise, study; care for”. It is the present active infinitive.

It can also be a form of μελέτη, “practice, exercise, care”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun or accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.64: Καταληφθεὶς δέ ποτε καὶ αὑτῷ λαλῶν καὶ ἐρωτηθεὶς τὴν αἰτίαν ἔφη μελετᾶν χρηστὸς εἶναι. ἔν τε ταῖς ζητήσεσιν ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς κατεφρονεῖτο διὰ τὸ 〈καὶ δι〉εξοδικῶς λέγειν καὶ πρὸς ἐρώτησιν …

Pindar, Nemean 6.56: ὁδὸν ἀμαξιτὸν εὗρον· ἕπομαι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἔχων μελέταν·

Hippocrates, De fracturis 32·2: περὶ οὗ οὖν ὁ λόγος, οὐ χρὴ ἐνοχλέειν ἐν τῇσι προειρημένῃσιν ἡμέρῃσι ταύτῃσιν, ἀλλὰ μελετᾷν ὅκως ἥκιστα φλεγμανεῖ τὸ ἕλκος, καὶ μάλιστα ἐκπυήσει. ἐπὴν δὲ ἑπτὰ ἡμέραι παρέλθωσιν, ἢ ὀλίγῳ πλείους, ἢν ἀπύ …

All forms of μελετάω (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.