to be sought
to be sought, S. Aj. 470, Ar. Th. 604, etc.
II one must seek
ζητητέον, one must seek, Id. Nu. 761, Sannyr. 8; ἤ τινα ἑτέραν [δύναμιν] . . ἡμῖν ζ. Pl. Phlb. 58d.
The corpus record
ζητ-ητέος
zeteteos
to be sought
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Where it lives
- Apology 1 · 5/10k
- Statesman 4 · 2.36/10k
- Enneads 45 · 2.12/10k
- Meno 2 · 2.04/10k
- Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
- Cratylus 3 · 1.68/10k
- Metaphysics 11 · 1.4/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Politics 5 · 0.77/10k
- Republic 6 · 0.68/10k
- Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ζητητέον · zētēteon Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 761)
- ζητητέον · zētēteon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 14
- ζητητέον · zētēteon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 9
- ζητητέος · zētēteos Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
- ζητητέον · zētēteon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2605)
- ζητητέον · zētēteon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2614)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.