ᾔδει (edei)

ᾔδει is an Ancient Greek form of οἶδα, meaning “to know”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of ἡδύς, “sweet, pleasant”.

Found 235 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.22.5: καὶ αὐτίκα βοὴ ἦν, τὸ δὲ στρατόπεδον ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος ὥρμησεν· οὐ γὰρ ᾔδει ὅτι ἦν τὸ δεινὸν σκοτεινῆς νυκτὸς καὶ χειμῶνος ὄντος, καὶ ἅμα οἱ ἐν τῇ πόλει τῶν Πλαταιῶν ὑπολελειμμένοι ἐξελ …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 3.7.1: … ροελθοῦσαν. ὅτι δὲ τοῦ γλυκέος διαφέρει τὸ ἡδὺ καὶ τὸν ποιητὴν ἐπιστάμενον λέγειν τυρῷ καὶ μέλιτι γλυκερῷ καὶ ἡδέι οἴνῳ· τὸν γὰρ οἶνον ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν εἶναι γλυκύν, γίγνεσθαι δʼ ἡδὺν ὅταν εἰς τὸ αὐστηρὸν τῇ πέψει μεταβάλῃ παλαιο …

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes 132: ἡδεῖʼ· ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ὥς οἱ ἐπείθετο θυμὸς ἀγήνωρ,

All forms of οἶδα (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.