νοῆσαι (noesai)

νοῆσαι is an Ancient Greek form of νοέω, meaning “perceive, think, understand, plan”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 117 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.948: οὐδʼ ἄρα Μηδείης θυμὸς τράπετʼ ἄλλα νοῆσαι,

Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 26: … ον πέρατα γὰρ ταῦτα, τὸ δʼ ἄπειρον καὶ ἀπεράτωτον. εἰ δὲ καὶ βιάσαιτό τις αὑτὸν λόγου βίᾳ κενοῦ μέσον ἀπείρου νοῆσαί τι, τίς ἡ πρὸς τοῦτο γιγνομένη τῶν κινήσεων διαφορὰ τοῖς σώμασι; οὔτε γὰρ ἐν τῷ κενῷ δύναμίς ἐστι τῶν σωμάτων …

Polybius, Histories 9.26a.10: εἰ γὰρ νοήσαι τις εἰς ὕψος ἀνατεταμένας τὰς ἐν τοῖς κλίμασιν οἰκίας οὕτως ὥστε πάσας ἰσοϋψεῖς ὑπάρχειν, φανερὸν ὡς ἑνὸς ἐπιπέδου γενομένου τοῦ κατὰ τὰ τέγη τῶν οἰκιῶν, ἴσον καὶ παράλληλον ἔσται τοῦτο τῷ τοῖς λόφοις ὑποκειμένῳ καὶ τοῖς τῶν τειχῶν θεμελίοις ἐπιπέδῳ.

All forms of νοέω (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.