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χρησόμεθα (chresometha)

χρησόμεθα is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the 1st person plural.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 10.6: … λαν ἀνηγόρευσεν αὐτόν σημαίνει δὲ τοὔνομα δημοκηδῆ· καὶ τοῦτο μᾶλλον ἴσχυσε τῶν ἀρχαίων ὀνομάτων, ᾧ καὶ ἡμεῖς χρησόμεθα τὸν λοιπὸν βίον τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἱστοροῦντες.

All forms of χράω (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.