σπουδάζειν (spoudazein)
σπουδάζειν is an Ancient Greek form of σπουδάζω, meaning “be eager, hurry; be serious”. It is the present active infinitive.
Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 2.31: τοῖς δὲ φίλοις παρήγγειλε μὴ χρήμασιν, ἀνδρείᾳ δὲ καὶ ἀρετῇ σπουδάζειν πλουτεῖν.
All forms of σπουδάζω (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.