χαῖρʼ (chair)

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

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.57: … ῶν ὄντων ὅταν Βίων θέλῃ νομίζειν. τοιγὰρ μάτην φρονῶν, ὅτʼ ἦν ἅπας ὁ λέμφος ἄνθραξ, τὴν χεῖρα τείνας ὧδέ πως, Χαῖρʼ, εἶπε, χαῖρε, Πλουτεῦ.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.117: οὐκέτʼ ἀνὰ δρυμώς, οὐκ ἄλσεα. χαῖρʼ Ἀρέθοισα,

Euripides, Cyclops 102: χαῖρ’, ὦ ξέν’, ὅστις δ’ εἶ φράσον πάτραν τε σήν.

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.