οἶμαι (oimai)

οἶμαι is an Ancient Greek form of οἴομαι, meaning “think, suppose, expect”. It is the 1st person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 2,610 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10.2: Λακεδαιμονίων γὰρ εἰ ἡ πόλις ἐρημωθείη, λειφθείη δὲ τά τε ἱερὰ καὶ τῆς κατασκευῆς τὰ ἐδάφη, πολλὴν ἂν οἶμαι ἀπιστίαν τῆς δυνάμεως προελθόντος πολλοῦ χρόνου τοῖς ἔπειτα πρὸς τὸ κλέος αὐτῶν εἶναι (καίτοι Πελοποννήσου τῶ …

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 11·2: οὐ γὰρ οἶμαὶ τινʼ ἐρεῖν, ὅτι μετὰ τούτων ὡς προερρήθη συνέπεσε κατὰ τύχην ἐπεὶ τί κωλύει λέγειν ἕτερον, ὡς προερρήθη οὐκ ἔ …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 58: … τα ἔλεγες, οὐκ ἂν οἴει καταγελάσαι σου αὐτούς, εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πλέον ἐνοχλοίης τάχα ἂν καὶ προσχέαι τοῦ ὕδατος; Οἶμαι ἔγωγε καὶ δίκαιά γ' ἂν πάθοιμι. Κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὴ καὶ ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ. τί δεῖ ἐκπιεῖν τὸν πίθον δυναμένους γε ἀπ' ὀλ …

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.