ᾐτεῖτο (eteito)

ᾐτεῖτο is an Ancient Greek form of αἰτέω, meaning “ask for, demand”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Timoleon 16.7: … νος μὲν, ὥσπερ εἶχε τὸ ξίφος, φεύγων πρός τινα πέτραν ὑψηλὴν ἀνεπήδησεν, ἅτερος δὲ τοῦ βωμοῦ λαβόμενος ἄδειαν ᾐτεῖτο παρὰ τοῦ Τιμολέοντος ἐπὶ τῷ πάντα μηνῦσαι.

Plutarch, Cicero 9.3: … , ἀνὴρ ἔχων τι τραχὺ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἄρχοντας ὀλίγωρον ἐν ταῖς συνηγορίαις, χοιράδων δὲ τὸν τράχηλον περίπλεως, ᾐτεῖτό τι καταστὰς παρὰ τοῦ Κικέρωνος, καὶ μὴ διδόντος, ἀλλὰ βουλευομένου πολὺν χρόνον, εἶπεν ὡς οὐκ ἂν αὐτός διστάσ …

All forms of αἰτέω (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.