πιθανῶς (pithanos)

πιθανῶς is an Ancient Greek form of πιθανός, meaning “persuasive”. It is the adjective.

It can also be a form of πιθανόω, “make probable”.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.78: … ἐστι τὸ ἡμέρα ἐστὶ καὶ νύξ ἐστι· ἡμέρα δέ ἐστιν· οὐκ ἄρα νύξ ἐστιν. ἀσυλλόγιστοι δʼ εἰσὶν οἱ παρακείμενοι μὲν πιθανῶς τοῖς συλλογιστικοῖς, οὐ συνάγοντες δέ, οἷον εἰ ἵππος ἐστὶ Δίων, ζῷόν ἐστι Δίων· 〈ἀλλὰ μὴν ἵππος οὐκ ἔστι Δίων …

All forms of πιθανός (declension 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.