ὀρέξει (orexei)

ὀρέξει is an Ancient Greek form of ὀρέγω, meaning “stretch out, reach”.

It can also be a form of ὄρεξις, “desire, appetite”. It is the nominative dual feminine noun or adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De cohibenda ira 11·3: … στορεῖ κατʼ αὐτὸν ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ μαστιγοῦσθαι τοὺς οἰκέτας πρὸς αὐλόν, οὕτω πρὸς ἡδονὴν δεῖ καθάπερ ἀπολαύσματος ὀρέξει τῆς τιμωρίας ἐμφορεῖσθαι καὶ χαίρειν κολάζοντας εἶτα μετανοεῖν· ὧν τὸ μὲν θηριῶδες τὸ δὲ γυναικῶδες· ἀλλὰ καὶ …

All forms of ὀρέγω (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.