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χάρισαι (charisai)

χάρισαι is an Ancient Greek form of χαρίζομαι, meaning “do a favour, gratify”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle/passive imperative.

It can also be a form of χαρίζω, “do a favour, gratify”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 23.41: κἂν νεκρῷ χάρισαι τὰ σὰ χείλεα. μή με φοβαθῇς·

Euripides, Electra 193: χρύσεά τε — χαρίσαι — προσθήματʼ ἀγλαΐας.

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.9: … άναι αὐτόν, μαστιγωσάτω, ἐπειδάν γε ἐγὼ δῶ αὐτῷ. καὶ σύγε, ὅ τι βούλει, ἔφη, ὦ θεῖε, τιμωρησάμενος τοῦτο ὅμως χάρισαί μοι. καὶ ὁ Κυαξάρης μέντοι τελευτῶν εἶπε· ποίει ὅπως βούλει· σὺ γὰρ νῦν γε ἡμῶν ἔοικας βασιλεὺς εἶναι.

All forms of χαρίζομαι (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.