ἐλαττοῦσθαι (elattousthai)

ἐλαττοῦσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλασσόω, meaning “make less, diminish; defeat”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Crassus 14.4: … οπλουτία καινὸν ἔρωτα προσλαβοῦσα καὶ ζῆλον ἐπὶ ταῖς Καίσαρος ἀριστείαις τροπαίων καὶ θριάμβων, οἷς γε μόνοις ἐλαττοῦσθαι προὔχοντα τοῖς ἄλλοις, αὐτὸν οὐκ ἀνῆκεν οὐδʼ ἐλώφησε πρὶν εἰς ὄλεθρον ἀκλεῆ καὶ δημοσίας συμφορὰς τελευτῆσαι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 45.17.5: ὤφθη. τό τε φῶς τοῦ ἡλίου ἐλαττοῦσθαί τε καὶ σβέννυσθαι, τοτὲ δὲ ἐν τρισὶ κύκλοις φαντάζεσθαι ἐδόκει, καὶ ἕνα γε αὐτῶν στέφανος σταχύων πυρώδης περ …

All forms of ἐλασσόω (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.