ἐκαλεῖτο (ekaleito)

ἐκαλεῖτο is an Ancient Greek form of καλέω, meaning “to call, summon, name”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 246 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.2.2: … ρες ὄντες καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Σικανοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ ἐν Ἰβηρίᾳ ὑπὸ Λιγύων ἀναστάντες. καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν Σικανία τότε ἡ νῆσος ἐκαλεῖτο, πρότερον Τρινακρία καλουμένη· οἰκοῦσι δὲ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τὰ πρὸς ἑσπέραν τὴν Σικελίαν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.5.86: … μαγείρῳ μνᾶς δέκʼ, ἰατρῷ δραχμήν, κόλακι τάλαντα πέντε, συμβούλῳ καπνόν, πόρνῃ τάλαντον, φιλοσόφῳ τριώβολον. Ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Θυρεπανοίκτης διὰ τὸ εἰς πᾶσαν εἰσιέναι οἰκίαν καὶ νουθετεῖν· ἔστιν αὐτοῦ καὶ τόδε· ταῦτʼ ἔχω ὅσσʼ ἔμα …

All forms of καλέω (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.