ᾄδειν (adein)

ᾄδειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀείδω, meaning “sing”. It is the present active infinitive.

It can also be a form of ἁνδάνω, “please”.

Found 117 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 17.38: τῷ οὔπω τινὰ φαντὶ ἁδεῖν τόσον ἀνδρὶ γυναικῶν,

Plutarch, Lycurgus 14.2: … θηλύτητα πᾶσαν οὐδὲν ἧττον εἴθισε τῶν κόρων τὰς κόρας γυμνάς τε πομπεύειν καὶ πρὸς ἱεροῖς τισιν ὀρχεῖσθαι καὶ ἄδειν τῶν νέων παρόντων καὶ θεωμένων.

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 13.3: … σμον οὐκ ἐχούσης οἱ μὲν ἐκρότουν ἰδόντες, οἱ δὲ ἐγέλων, ἐκώλυε δὲ οὐδείς, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ γύναιον αὐλεῖν κἀκεῖνον ᾅδειν ἐκέλευον εἷς μέσον προελθόντα· καὶ τοῦτο ποιήσων ἐπίδοξος ἦν.

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.