μεῖναι (meinai)

μεῖναι is an Ancient Greek form of μένω, meaning “to stay, wait, remain”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 120 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.825: ἔνθα κασιγνήτους μὲν ἔτʼ αὐτόθι μεῖναι ἀνώγει

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.10.5: … τις ὑπομένοι καὶ μὴ φόβῳ ῥοθίου καὶ νεῶν δεινότητος κατάπλου ὑποχωροίη, οὐκ ἄν ποτε βιάζοιτο, καὶ αὐτοὺς νῦν μεῖναί τε καὶ ἀμυνομένους παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν ῥαχίαν σῴζειν ἡμᾶς τε αὐτοὺς καὶ τὸ χωρίον.’

Aristotle, Economics 2.2.33·2: … ματα ἐδίδοσαν, οἰόμενοί τε αὐτὸν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μέλλειν τοῦτο ποιεῖν, καὶ ἕκαστος βουλόμενος τό τε ἱερὸν τὸ αὑτοῦ μείναι κατὰ χώραν καὐτὸς ἱερεύς.

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.