αἰτέω (aiteo)

Where it lives

James 5 · 29.24/10k
1 John 5 · 23.52/10k
Fragments 7 · 17.57/10k
Against Alcibiades 2 1 · 16.64/10k
Against Androtion 9 · 16.43/10k
Apollodorus Against Timotheus 7 · 16.21/10k
Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys 1 · 13.35/10k
Oeconomica II 6 · 12.76/10k
On the Property of Aristophanes 3 · 9.67/10k
Rhesus 5 · 9.3/10k
Regnorum III 16 · 8.37/10k
Ephesians 2 · 8.31/10k

Densest 12 of 144 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. αἰτέω · aiteō — Frisk

αἰτέω. Von den präfigierten &r-, μετ-, noo0-utew auch die Rückbildungen ἐπ-, μετ-, προσ-αίτης (hell. u. sp.). — Zu αἰτέω noch Devoto (5. zu alca). — [Frisk, s.v. αἰτέω, p. 2149]

2. αἰτ-έω · ait-eō — LSJ

ask, beg

ask, beg, abs., Od. 18.49, A. Supp. 341.

2 ask for, demand, ask leave, to ask, ask, for, to demand

mostly c. acc. rei, ask for, demand, Il. 5.358, Od. 17.365, etc.; ὁδὸν αἰ. ask leave to depart, Od. 10.17; αἰ. τινί τι to ask something for one, 20.74, Hdt. 5.17: c. acc. pers. et rei, ask a person for a thing, Il. 22.295, Od. 2.387, Hdt. 3.1, etc.; δίκας αἰ. τινὰ φόνου to demand satisfaction from one for . . , Hdt. 8.114; αἰ. τι πρός τινος Thgn. 556; παρά τινος X. An. 1.3.16; τὰ αἰτήματα ἃ τήκαμεν παρʼ αὐτοῦ 1 Ep.Jo. 5.15.

3 ask, to

c. acc. pers. et inf., ask one to do, Od. 3.173, S. OC 1334, Ant. 65, etc.; αἰ. παρά τινος δοῦναι Pl. Erx. 398e.

4 beg of

c. acc. only, beg of, D.L. 6.49.

5 postulate, assume

in Logic, postulate, assume, Arist. APr. 41b9 (Pass.), Top. 163a6, etc.

II ask for oneʼs own use, claim, to beg

Med., ask for oneʼs own use, claim, Λύσανδρον ἄρχοντα Lys. 12.59; freq. almost = the Act., and with the same construct., first in Hdt. 1.90 (παρ-), 9.34, A. Pr. 822, etc.; αἰτεῖσθαί τινα ὅπως .. Antipho 1.12 codd.; πάλαισμα μήποτε λῦσαι θεὸν αἰτοῦμαι S. OT 880; freq. abs. in part., αἰτουμένῳ μοι δός A. Ch. 480, cf. 2, Th. 260, S. Ph. 63; αἰτουμένη που τεύξεται Id. Ant. 778; αἰτησάμενος ἐχρήσατο Lys. 19.27; οὐ πῦρ γὰρ αἰτῶν, οὐδὲ λοπάδʼ αἰτούμενος Men. 476; αἰτεῖσθαι ὑπέρ τινος to beg for one, Ly

III have a thing begged of, to be asked to

Pass., of persons, have a thing begged of one, αἰτηθέντες χρήματα Hdt. 8.111, cf. Th. 2.97, etc.; αἰτεύμενος Theoc. 14.63: c. inf., to be asked to do a thing, Pi. I. 8(7).5.

2 to be asked, borrowed

of things, to be asked, τὸ αἰτεόμενον Hdt. 8.112; ἵπποι ᾐτημένοι borrowed horses, Lys. 24.12.

In the wild

αἰτῶ · aitō Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1–9
αἰτουμένῳ · aitoumenōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1–2
αἰτουμένῳ · aitoumenōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 479–480
αἰτοῦ · aitou Aeschylus, Persians 216–218
αἰτοῦ · aitou Aeschylus, Persians 220–223
αἰτησόμεθα · aitēsometha Aeschylus, Persians 623–627

6 of 581 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἰτέω (scan p. 2149; entry #6334).

Ask the librarian

Ask about αἰτέω →