ἠδύνατο (edynato)

ἠδύνατο is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 84 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.1.39: … ὸν ἄνδρα Θαλῆν ἥρπασας ἐκ σταδίου. αἰνέω ὅττι μιν ἐγγὺς ἀπήγαγες· ἦ γὰρ ὁ πρέσβυς οὐκέθʼ ὁρᾶν ἀπὸ γῆς ἀστέρας ἠδύνατο.

New Testament, Mark 6.19: ἡ δὲ Ἡρῳδιὰς ἐνεῖχεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἤθελεν αὐτὸν ἀποκτεῖναι, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνατο·

Aesop, Fables 33: … λώπηξ λιμώττουσα ὡς ἐθεάσατο ἐπί τινος ἀναδενδράδος βότρυας κρεμαμένους, ἠβουλήθη αὐτῶν περιγενέσθαι, καὶ οὐκ ἡδύνατο· ἀπαλλαττομένη δὲ πρὸς ἑαυτὴν εἶπεν· “ὄμφακές εἰσιν.“ Οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἔνιοι, τῶν πραγμάτων ἐφικέσθαι μὴ …

All forms of δύναμαι (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.