οἴωνται (oiontai)

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

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 13: … δυσσέως σὺ δʼ, ὦ τὸ λαμπρὸν φῶς ἀποσβεννὺς γένους, ξαίνεις, ἀρίστου πατρὸς Ἑλλήνων γεγώς; καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄσωτον οἴωνται λέγεσθαι καὶ πρὸς τὸν αἰσχροκερδῆ καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἀμελῆ καὶ ἀπαίδευτον πίνεις, ἀρίστου πατρὸς Ἑλλήνων γεγώς, ἢ κ …

Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.8.7: κἂν οἴωνταί τινας εἶναι τῶν ἐπιεικῶν· ὁ γὰρ μηδένα οἰόμενοςπάντας οἰήσεται ἀξίους εἶναι κακοῦ. καὶ ὅλως δὴ ὅταν ἔχῃ οὕτως ὥστʼ ἀναμνησθῆναι τοιαῦτα συμβεβηκότα ἢ αὑτῷ ἤ τῳ τῶν αὑτοῦ, ἢ ἐλπίσαι γενέσθαι αὑτῷ ἤ τῳ τῶν αὑτοῦ.

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.