προαιρεῖσθαι (proaireisthai)

προαιρεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of προαιρέω, meaning “choose, prefer”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.2: οὐκοῦν τὸ μὲν βούλεσθαι σίτου ἅπτεσθαι, ὅταν ὥρα ἥκῃ, ἀμφοτέροις εἰκὸς παραγίγνεσθαι; εἰκὸς γάρ, ἔφη. τὸ οὖν προαιρεῖσθαι τὸ κατεπεῖγον μᾶλλον πράττειν ἢ τῇ γαστρὶ χαρίζεσθαι πότερον ἂν αὐτῶν ἐθίζοιμεν; τὸν εἰς τὸ ἄρχειν, ἔφη, νὴ Δ …

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.2·2: … ληθῶς. καὶ προαιρούμεθα μὲν ἃ μάλιστα ἴσμεν ἀγαθὰ ὄντα, δοξάζομεν δὲ ἃ οὐ πάνυ ἴσμεν· δοκοῦσι δὲ οὐχ οἱ αὐτοὶ προαιρεῖσθαί τε ἄριστα καὶ δοξάζειν, ἀλλʼ ἔνιοι δοξάζειν μὲν ἄμεινον, διὰ κακίαν δʼ αἱρεῖσθαι οὐχ ἃ δεῖ. εἰ δὲ προγίνεται …

All forms of προαιρέω (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.