φιλεῖ (philei)

φιλεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of φιλέω, meaning “love, like, kiss; be accustomed”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 277 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.78.2: μηκυνόμενος γὰρ φιλεῖ ἐς τύχας τὰ πολλὰ περιίστασθαι, ὧν ἴσον τε ἀπέχομεν καὶ ὁποτέρως ἔσται ἐν ἀδήλῳ κινδυνεύεται.

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 17: … ρώων καὶ φύντας ἀπὸ θεῶν πρὸ γήρως ἐκλιπόντας τὸν βίον οἱ ποιηταὶ παρέδοσαν ἡμῖν, ὥσπερ κἀκεῖνον ὃν περὶ κῆρι φίλει Ζεὺς τʼ αἰγίοχος καὶ Ἀπόλλων παντοίην φιλότητʼ, οὐδʼ ἵκετο γήραος; οὐδόν τὴν γὰρ εὐκαιρίαν μᾶλλον, οὐ τὴν εὐγ …

All forms of φιλέω (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.