ἔχοντα (echonta)

ἔχοντα is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present active participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 1,667 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90.1: … αἰσθόμενοι τὸ μέλλον ἦλθον πρεσβείᾳ, τὰ μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἥδιον ἂν ὁρῶντες μήτ’ ἐκείνους μήτ’ ἄλλον μηδένα τεῖχος ἔχοντα, τὸ δὲ πλέον τῶν ξυμμάχων ἐξοτρυνόντων καὶ φοβουμένων τοῦ τε ναυτικοῦ αὐτῶν τὸ πλῆθος, ὃ πρὶν οὐχ ὑπῆρχε, καὶ …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 659: οὐκ οἶδʼ· ἐρωτᾷς οὐ λέγειν ἔχοντά με.

Plutarch, De Virtute Morali 6·3: … τοῦτο γάρ μοι συμφέρει τὴν κρίσιν ἔχει τῷ πάθει συννοσοῦσαν. αἱ δὲ τῆς ἀκρασίας ἕτεραι καὶ διαφέρουσαι γνώμην ἔχοντὰ μʼ ἡ φύσις βιάζεται· καί αἰαῖ, τόδʼ ἤδη θεῖον ἀνθρώποις κακόν, ὅταν τις εἰδῇ τἀγαθὸν χρῆται δὲ μή· καὶ εἴκει …

All forms of ἔχω (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.