προτιμᾶν (protiman)

προτιμᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of προτιμάω, meaning “honour more, prefer”. It is the present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active infinitive.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.23: καὶ θεοὺς μὲν δαιμόνων προτιμᾶν, ἥρωας δʼ ἀνθρώπων, ἀνθρώπων δὲ μάλιστα τοὺς γονέας. ἀλλήλοις θʼ ὁμιλεῖν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους ἐχθροὺς μὴ ποιῆσ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 22·2: … ἀναλίσκειν οὐδέν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ παράχρησις. ὅτι οὐ δεῖ τιμὴν ἐπιζητεῖν, ἢ πρωτείων ἀντιποιεῖσθαι. ὅτι δεῖ ἕκαστον προτιμᾷν ἑαυτοῦ πάντας. ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ἀνυπότακτον εἶναι.

All forms of προτιμάω (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.