ἐρωτᾶν (erotan)

ἐρωτᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐρωτάω, meaning “ask”. It is the present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active infinitive.

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.17.134: … φετό τε πρὸς πάντα καὶ εὑρεσιλόγει· ἐριστικώτατός τε, καθά φησιν Ἀντισθένης ἐν Διαδοχαῖς, ἦν. καὶ δὴ καὶ τόδε ἐρωτᾶν εἰώθει· τὸ ἕτερον τοῦ ἑτέρου ἕτερόν ἐστι; ναί. ἕτερον δέ ἐστι τὸ ὠφελεῖν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ; ναί. οὐκ ἄρα τὸ ὠφελεῖν …

New Testament, John 16.19: ἔγνω Ἰησοῦς ὅτι ἤθελον αὐτὸν ἐρωτᾷν, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Περὶ τούτου ζητεῖτε μετʼ ἀλλήλων ὅτι εἶπον Μικρὸν καὶ οὐ θεωρεῖτέ με, καὶ πάλιν μικρὸν καὶ ὄψεσθέ με;

All forms of ἐρωτάω (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.