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ᾄδει (adei)

ᾄδει is an Ancient Greek form of ἀείδω, meaning “sing”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.27: καὶ βαθὺ κισσύβιον κεκλυσμένον ἁδέι κηρῷ,

Euripides, Cyclops 425: ᾄδεῖ δὲ παρὰ κλαίουσι συνναύταις ἐμοῖς

Plutarch, De Vitioso Pudore 6: … υς τοῦ ἀδυσωπήτου μελέτη καὶ ἄσκησις ἐν μικροῖς καὶ ἐλαφροῖς ἄχρηστός ἐστιν. οἷον ἐν συμποσίῳ φίλου κιθαρῳδὸς ᾄδει κακῶς ἢ πολλοῦ κωμῳδὸς ἐωνημένος ἐπιτρίβει Μένανδρον, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κροτοῦσι καὶ θαυμάζουσιν· · οὐδὲν οἶμαι χα …

All forms of ἀείδω (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.