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πενθεῖν (penthein)

πενθεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of πενθέω, meaning “mourn”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 81: βασίλεαν πενθεῖν χρή μʼ, ἢ ζῶσ’ ἔτι

All forms of πενθέω (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.