ἔχαιρον (echairon)

ἔχαιρον is an Ancient Greek form of χαίρω, meaning “rejoice, be glad; (imper.) farewell”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.83: … ὥς φησι καὶ Εὔδοξος ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τῆς Περιόδου, κοινὰς ἔχουσι τὰς γυναῖκας, Ἕλληνες δʼ οὔ· Κίλικές τε λῃστείαις ἔχαιρον, ἀλλʼ οὐχ Ἕλληνες.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.44.3: περὶ ταῦτα δὴ τὰ ἔργα τριβόμενος ὁ λεὼς οὐδεμίαν ἀνάπαυσιν ἐλάμβανεν· ὥσθʼ οἱ πατρίκιοι τὰ τούτων κακὰ καὶ τὰς λατρείας ὁρῶντες ἔχαιρόν τʼ ἐν μέρει καὶ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπελανθάνοντο ἀλγεινῶν· κωλύειν μὲν γὰρ οὐδέτεροι τὰ γινόμενα ἐπεχείρουν.

All forms of χαίρω (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.