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πλησιάζειν (plesiazein)

πλησιάζειν is an Ancient Greek form of πλησιάζω, meaning “approach, come near”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 81 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.100: ἔστι δὲ χρήσιμος πρὸς τὸ πλησιάζειν. ὧν δεδομένων ἐπῆγεν· οὐκοῦν εἴ τις πλησιασμῷ χρώμενος παρʼ ὅσον χρήσιμός ἐστιν, οὐ διαμαρτάνει· οὐδʼ ἄρα εἰ …

All forms of πλησιάζω (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.