τάχει (tachei)

τάχει is an Ancient Greek form of ταχύς, meaning “swift, quick”.

It can also be a form of τάχος, “speed”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 210 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.79.2: καὶ τῶν μὲν πλεόνων ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ αἱ γνῶμαι ἔφερον, ἀδικεῖν τε τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἤδη καὶ πολεμητέα εἶναι ἐν τάχει· παρελθὼν δὲ Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ βασιλεὺς αὐτῶν, ἀνὴρ καὶ ξυνετὸς δοκῶν εἶναι καὶ σώφρων, ἔλεξε τοιάδε.

Sophocles, Philoctetes 808: ὀξεῖα φοιτᾷ καὶ ταχεῖʼ ἀπέρχεται.

Bacchylides, Epinicians 5.18: ὑψοῦ πτερύγεσσι ταχεί-

All forms of ταχύς (declension 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.