ἐκαλοῦντο (ekalounto)

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

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126.11: … ῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν τοῖς βωμοῖς ἐν τῇ παρόδῳ ἀπεχρήσαντο. καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου ἐναγεῖς καὶ ἀλιτήριοι τῆς θεοῦ ἐκεῖνοί τε ἐκαλοῦντο καὶ τὸ γένος τὸ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνων.

Strabo, Geography 12.3.20: … λύβων Χάλυβας, καὶ ταῦτα τῶν ὀνομάτων μεταπτώσεις πολλὰς δεχομένων καὶ μάλιστα ἐν τοῖς βαρβάροις· Σίντιες γὰρ ἐκαλοῦντό τινες τῶν Θρᾳκῶν, εἶτα Σιντοί, εἶτα Σάιοι, παρʼ οἷς φησιν Ἀρχίλοχος τὴν ἀσπίδα ῥῖψαι ἀσπίδα μὲν Σαΐων τις ἀνε …

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.