ψαύειν (psauein)

ψαύειν is an Ancient Greek form of ψαύω, meaning “touch”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.44: … ὀπτηθῇ καὶ ἁλισθῇ, δὴ τότε καὶ ψυχὴν οὐκ ἔχον ἐσθίομεν. ἄλλο· ἦν ἄρα Πυθαγόρης τοῖος σοφός, ὥστε μὲν αὐτὸς μὴ ψαύειν κρειῶν καὶ λέγεν ὡς ἄδικον, σιτίζειν δʼ ἄλλους. ἄγαμαι σοφόν· αὐτὸς ἔφα μὲν οὐκ ἀδικεῖν, ἄλλους δʼ αὐτὸς ἔτευ …

All forms of ψαύω (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.