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οἴοιτο (oioito)

οἴοιτο is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive optative.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demosthenes 1.2: γελοῖον γάρ εἴ τις οἴοιτο τὴν Ἰουλίδα, μέρος μικρὸν οὖσαν οὐ μεγάλης νήσου τῆς Κέω, καὶ τὴν Αἴγιναν, ἣν τῶν Ἀττικῶν τις ἐκέλευεν ὡς λήμ …

Xenophon, On Hunting 10.17: οὕτω δὲ πολλὴ ἡ δύναμίς ἐστιν αὐτοῦ ὥστε καὶ ἃ οὐκ ἂν οἴοιτό τις πρόσεστιν αὐτῷ· τεθνεῶτος γὰρ εὐθὺς ἐάν τις ἐπὶ τὸν ὀδόντα ἐπιθῇ τρίχας, συντρέχουσιν· οὕτως εἰσὶ θερμοί· …

All forms of οἴομαι (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.