φαίνῃ (phaine)

φαίνῃ is an Ancient Greek form of φαίνω, meaning “to show, make appear; (mid./pass.) appear, seem”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.21: … τειναμένου αὐτῷ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑποσχών, παῖε, εἶπεν· οὐ γὰρ εὑρήσεις οὕτω σκληρὸν ξύλον ᾧ με ἀπείρξεις ἕως ἄν τι φαίνῃ λέγων. τοὐντεῦθεν διήκουσεν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἅτε φυγὰς ὢν ὥρμησεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐτελῆ βίον.

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.