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ἀφαιρέειν (aphaireein)

ἀφαιρέειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis 7: … αχίονα βάρος ἢ περὶ μαζὸν ἢ ὑπὲρ τῶν φρενῶν, τάμενιν χρὴ τὴν ἐν τῷ ἀγκῶνι φλέβα τὴν ἔσω, καὶ μὴ ὀκνέεινσυχνὸν ἀφαιρέειν τὸ αἷμα ἕως ἂν ἐρυθρότερον πολλῷ ῤυῇ, ἀντὶ καθαροῦ τε καὶἐρυθροῦ πελιόν· ἀμφότερα γὰρ γίγνεται. ἢν δὲ ὑπὸ τὰς …

All forms of ἀφαιρέω (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.