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φορεῖν (phorein)

φορεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of φορέω, meaning “carry, wear, bear”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.67: … θαι καὶ καταφρονῆσαι πολύς. διό ποτε Στράτωνα, οἱ δὲ Πλάτωνα, πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν, σοὶ μόνῳ δέδοται καὶ χλανίδα φορεῖν καὶ ῥάκος. Διονυσίου δὲ προσπτύσαντος αὐτῷ ἠνέσχετο. μεμψαμένου δέ τινος, εἶτα οἱ μὲν ἁλιεῖς, εἶπεν, ὑπομένου …

All forms of φορέω (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.