ἀναιρεῖ (anairei)

ἀναιρεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναιρέω, meaning “take up, pick up; answer (of an oracle)”.

It can also be a form of ἀναίρω, “lift up, take up”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 126 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.7.64: … τοὺς Πλάτωνος, Ξενοφῶντος, Ἀντισθένους, Αἰσχίνου· διστάζει δὲ περὶ τῶν Φαίδωνος καὶ Εὐκλείδου, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἀναιρεῖ πάντας. Γεγόνασι δʼ Αἰσχίναι ὀκτώ· πρῶτος αὐτὸς οὗτος· δεύτερος δʼ ὁ τὰς τέχνας γεγραφὼς τὰς ῥητορικάς· τρίτο …

Plutarch, De esu carnium I 4: … κάστου λέγοντος οὐ παραιτοῦμαί σου τὴν ἀνάγκην ἀλλὰ τὴν ὕβριν, ἵνα φάγῃς ἀπόκτεινον, ἵνα δʼ ἥδιον φάγῃς μὴ μʼ ἀναίρει ὢ τῆς ὠμότητος δεινὸν μέν ἐστι καὶ τιθεμένην ἰδεῖν τράπεζαν ἀνθρώπων πλουσίων νεκροκόσμοις χρωμένων μαγείροις …

All forms of ἀναιρέω (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.