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προαιρεῖται (proaireitai)

προαιρεῖται is an Ancient Greek form of προαιρέω, meaning “choose, prefer”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcus Cato 24.3: … γὰρ οὐ μεμπτός ἐστι, σφόδρα δὲ πρεσβύτης. ὡς οὖν ὁ Σαλώνιος ἐκέλευε ταῦτα φροντίζειν καὶ διδόναι τὴν κόρην ᾧ προαιρεῖται, πελάτιν οὖσαν αὐτοῦ καὶ δεομένην τῆς ἐκείνου κηδεμονίας, οὐδεμίαν ὁ Κάτων ἀναβολὴν ποιησάμενος αὐτὸς ἔφη τὴν …

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.