προσδοκᾶν (prosdokan)

προσδοκᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of προσδοκάω, meaning “expect, wait for”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 101 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.81: … καὶ ἄφθαρτα, καὶ ὑπεναντίας ἔχειν τούτῳ βουλήσεις ἅμα καὶ πράξεις καὶ αἰτίας, καὶ ἐν τῷ αἰώνιόν τι δεινὸν ἀεὶ προσδοκᾶν ἢ ὑποπτεύειν κατὰ τοὺς μύθους εἴ τε καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ἀναισθησίαν τὴν ἐν τῷ τεθνάναι φοβουμένους ὥσπερ οὖσαν κατʼ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 7: … πως πέφυκε διακονεῖσθαι τοῖς νοουμένοις. εἰ οὖν ἀσθενὴς ἡμῶν ἡ διάνοια, ἐλάττων δὲ ταύτης ἡ γλῶσσα, τί ἐχρῆν προσδοκᾷν ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ τοῖς εἰρημένοις, καὶ οὐχὶ πενίαν ἐγκληθήσεσθαι λόγων; οὐ μὴν τούτου γε ἕνεκεν δυνατὸν ἦν σιωπῇ παρελ …

All forms of προσδοκάω (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.