ἐᾷ (ea)

ἐᾷ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐάω, meaning “to allow, permit, let be”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 520 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1120: δαιμονίη, κενεὰς μὲν ἔα πλάζεσθαι ἀέλλας,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.9: Ἐν δὲ τοῖς τρισὶ συγγράμμασι τοῖς προειρημένοις φέρεται Πυθαγόρου τάδε καθολικῶς. οὐκ ἐᾷ εὔχεσθαι ὑπὲρ ἑαυτῶν διὰ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι τὸ συμφέρον. τὴν μέθην ἓν ἀνθʼ ἑνὸς βλάβην καλεῖ καὶ πλησμονὴν πᾶσαν ἀ …

Plutarch, De sollertia animalium 11: … αι σημεῖον ὁ Ἄρατος ἢ κοίλης μύρμηκες ὀχῆς ἐξ ὤεα πάντα θᾶσσον ἀνηνέγκαντο 1 καί τινες οὐκ ᾠά γράφουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἑά ὡς τοὺς ἀποκειμένους καρποὺς, ὅταν εὐρῶτα συνάγοντας αἴσθωνται καὶ φοβηθῶσι φθορὰν καὶ σῆψιν, ἀναφερόντων. ὑπ …

All forms of ἐάω (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.