παραινεῖν (parainein)

παραινεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of παραινέω, meaning “advise, urge”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.145.1: ὁ μὲν Περικλῆς τοιαῦτα εἶπεν, οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι νομίσαντες ἄριστα σφίσι παραινεῖν αὐτὸν ἐψηφίσαντο ἃ ἐκέλευε, καὶ τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀπεκρίναντο τῇ ἐκείνου γνώμῃ, καθ’ ἕκαστά τε ὡς ἔφρασε κα …

Aesop, Fables 130: … ας.“ Ταῦτα ἦν, καὶ κυνῶν δρόμος ἠκούετο πόῤῥωθεν. δὲ μένειν τῷ παιδὶ παραινέσασα αὐτὴ τῆς φυγῆς προκατήρξατο. Παραινεῖν ἕτοιμον, ἃ ποιεῖν ἀπορώτερον.

All forms of παραινέω (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.