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χαίρουσιν (chairousin)

χαίρουσιν is an Ancient Greek form of χαίρω, meaning “rejoice, be glad; (imper.) farewell”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 127: τί φῄς; βορᾷ χαίρουσιν ἀνθρωποκτόνῳ;

Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.11.10: καὶ ἐν ταῖς πλείσταις ἐπιθυμίαις ἀκολουθεῖ τις ἡδονή· ἢ γὰρ μεμνημένοι ὡς ἔτυχον ἢ ἐλπίζοντες ὡς τεύξονται χαίρουσίν τινα ἡδονήν, οἷον οἵ τʼ ἐν τοῖς πυρετοῖς ἐχόμενοι ταῖς δίψαις καὶ μεμνημένοι ὡς ἔπιον καὶ ἐλπίζοντες πιεῖσθαι χαίρουσιν,

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.