τηρῶν (teron)

τηρῶν is an Ancient Greek form of τηρέω, meaning “watch over, guard, keep”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of τηρός, “warden, guard”.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.87: … τοὺς γὰρ πλείστους εἶναι κακούς. συνεβούλευέ τε ὧδε· βραδέως ἐγχείρει τοῖς πραττομένοις· ὃ δʼ ἂν ἕλῃ, βεβαίως τηρῶν διάμενε. μὴ

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 5.22: … ούειν ἑτέρου λέγοντος, ἀλλ’ ὀδυνηρῶς μέν, ἀναύδως δὲ τοῦ πάθους ἔφερον τὴν ὑπερβολήν. Στρατιώτης δέ τις ὄνομα Τηρῶν, υἱοῦ αὐτῷ καθ’ ἡλικίαν ὄντος Ἀλεξάνδρῳ φίλου, πολλὰ καὶ πρὸς τὸ πλῆθος ἔλεγε, καὶ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα δὲ παρρησ …

All forms of τηρέω (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.