χαῖρε (chaire)

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

Found 266 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.42: … ἀγαθὰ διαλεχθείς, ἃ Πλάτων ἐν τῷ Φαίδωνί φησιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ παιᾶνα κατά τινας ἐποίησεν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· Δήλιʼ Ἄπολλον χαῖρε, καὶ Ἄρτεμι, παῖδε κλεεινώ. Διονυσόδωρος δέ φησι μὴ εἶναι αὐτοῦ τὸν παιᾶνα. ἐποίησε δὲ καὶ μῦθον Αἰσώπειον οὐ …

Euripides, Hippolytus 63: χαῖρε, χαῖρέ μοι, ὦ κόρα

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 5.46.1: χαιρε σύ. καὶ σύ γε χαῖρε. τί δεῖ σε καλεῖν; σὲ δέ; μή πω

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.