φαίνηται (phainetai)

φαίνηται is an Ancient Greek form of φαίνω, meaning “to show, make appear; (mid./pass.) appear, seem”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 158 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.41.4: … λειαν καὶ ἐξέτασιν αὐτῶν ἡμεῖς ἕξομεν), καὶ τῶν πρὸς τὰς πόλεις διαπομπῶν ἅμα ἔς τε κατασκοπὴν καὶ ἤν τι ἄλλο φαίνηται ἐπιτήδειον. τὰ δὲ καὶ ἐπιμεμελήμεθα ἤδη, καὶ ὅτι ἂν αἰσθώμεθα ἐς ὑμᾶς οἴσομεν.’ καὶ οἱ μὲν Συρακόσιοι τοσαῦτα …

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 13·3: … ν τὸ τοῦ Φιλήμονος ἔχοντας πρόχειρον ἥδιον οὐδὲν οὐδὲ μουσικώτερον ἔστʼ ἢ δύνασθαι λοιδορούμενον φέρειν ἂν δὲ φαίνηταί τις ἐπιλήψεως δεόμενος, τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων καὶ τῶν παθῶν ἐπιλαμβάνεσθαι , ὥσπερ ὁ τραγικὸς Ἄδραστος, τοῦ Ἀλκμέων …

All forms of φαίνω (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.