ἐρεῖ (erei)

ἐρεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρῶ, meaning “I will say, will speak (future of λέγω)”. It is the 3rd person singular future active indicative.

It can also be a form of ἐρέω, “to say, speak, tell”.

Found 277 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66.4: κατὰ δὲ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ προσολοφύρασθαί τινι ἀγανακτήσαντα, ὥστε ἀμύνασθαι ἐπιβουλεύσαντα, ἀδύνατον ἦν· ἢ γὰρ ἀγνῶτα ἂν ηὗρεν ᾧ ἐρεῖ ἢ γνώριμον ἄπιστον.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 28.24: κῆνο γάρ τις ἔρει τὤπος ἴδων σʼ· ἦ μεγάλα χάρις

All forms of ἐρῶ (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.