χαίρετʼ (chairet)

χαίρετʼ is an Ancient Greek form of χαίρω, meaning “rejoice, be glad; (imper.) farewell”. It is the 2nd person plural present active imperative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.62: ὦ φίλοι, οἳ μέγα ἄστυ κατὰ ξανθοῦ Ἀκράγαντος ναίετʼ ἀνʼ ἄκρα πόλεος, ἀγαθῶν μελεδήμονες ἔργων, χαίρετʼ· ἐγὼ δʼ ὑμῖν θεὸς ἄμβροτος, οὐκέτι θνητὸς πωλεῦμαι μετὰ πᾶσι τετιμένος, ὥσπερ ἔοικα, ταινίαις τε περίστεπτος …

Euripides, Hippolytus 357: βίου θανοῦσα· χαίρετ’· οὐκέτ’ εἴμ’ ἐγώ.

Euripides, Electra 779: ἰδών τʼ ἀυτεῖ· Χαίρετʼ, ὦ ξένοι· τίνες

All forms of χαίρω (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.