νικᾷ (nika)

νικᾷ is an Ancient Greek form of νικάω, meaning “conquer, win, prevail”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 128 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.74.1: διαλιπούσης δ’ ἡμέρας μάχη αὖθις γίγνεται καὶ νικᾷ ὁ δῆμος χωρίων τε ἰσχύι καὶ πλήθει προύχων· αἵ τε γυναῖκες αὐτοῖς τολμηρῶς ξυνεπελάβοντο βάλλουσαι ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκιῶν τῷ κεράμῳ καὶ παρὰ φύσιν ὑπομένουσαι τὸν θόρυβον.

Euripides, Alcestis 1108: νίκα νυν. οὐ μὴν ἁνδάνοντά μοι ποιεῖς.

Euripides, Ion 457: κορυφᾶς Διός, ὦ μάκαιρα Νίκα,

All forms of νικάω (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.