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ψύχει (psychei)

ψύχει is an Ancient Greek form of ψῦχος, meaning “cold”.

It can also be a form of ψύχω, “cool, chill”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 27.18: ἐν δὲ χειμῶνι καὶ ψύχει τῶν φίλων τινὸς ἑστιῶντος αὐτόν, ἐσχάραν δὲ μικρὰν καὶ πῦρ ὀλίγον εἰσενέγκαντος, ἢ ξύλα ἢ λιβανωτὸν εἰσενεγκεῖν ἐκέλευσεν.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.5·2: … ὀρυγμίη· ἀνέπλω κοτὲ καὶ ὑγρὸν δριμὺ ξὺν χολῇ. σφυγμοὶ ὡς ἐπίπαν σμικροὶ, νωθροὶ, ἀδρανέες, πυκνοὶ, ἴκελοι τῷ ψύχεϊ.

All forms of ψῦχος (declension 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.