εἴωθα
etho
to be accustomed, to be wont
Appears 129 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Politics 23 ▸
Open Politics › Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 10 1271b20–1272b23
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 7 1279a22–1279b10
Chapter 16 1287a1–1287b35
Chapter 17 1287b36–1288a31
Book IV 5 ▸
Chapter 3 1289b27–1290a29
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Chapter 13 1297a14–1297b34
Chapter 15 1299a3–1300b12
Book V 3 ▸
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10
Book VI 5 ▸
Chapter 2 1317a40–1318a10
Chapter 5 1319b30–1320b17
Book VII 2 ▸
Chapter 4 1325b33–1326b25
Chapter 14 1332b12–1334a10
Book VIII 3 ▸
Chapter 7 1341b15–1342b34
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Rhetoric 16 ▸
Open Rhetoric › Book I 7 ▸
Chapter 2 1355b25–1358a35
Chapter 10 1368b1–1369b32
Chapter 12 1372a4–1373a38
Book II 5 ▸
Chapter 16 1390b32–1391a19
Chapter 19 1392a8–1393a22
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33
Book III 4 ▸
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19
Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30
Chapter 18 1418b40–1419b9
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Generation of Animals 14 ▸
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History of Animals 14 ▸
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Topics 10 ▸
Open Topics › Book I 4 ▸
Book II 1 ▸
Book V 1 ▸
Book VI 3 ▸
Book VIII 1 ▸
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Metaphysics 9 ▸
Open Metaphysics › Book Α 1 ▸
Book α 1 ▸
Book Γ 1 ▸
Chapter 3 1005a19–1005b34
Book Ζ 2 ▸
Chapter 11 1036a26–1037b7
Book Η 1 ▸
Book Μ 3 ▸
Chapter 2 1076a38–1077b16
Chapter 5 1079b12–1080a11
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Nicomachean Ethics 5 ▸
Open Nicomachean Ethics › Book II 1 ▸
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27
Book VII 1 ▸
Chapter 1 1145a15–1145b20
Book VIII 2 ▸
Chapter 10 1160a31–1161a9
Book IX 1 ▸
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Prior Analytics 4 ▸
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Physics 4 ▸
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Poetics 4 ▸
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On the Heavens 3 ▸
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Categories 3 ▸
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De Mundo 3 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 3 ▸
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De Anima 2 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 2 ▸
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Progression of Animals 2 ▸
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On Memory 2 ▸
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Parts of Animals 2 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 1 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 1 ▸
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Meteorology 1 ▸
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Physiognomonics 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
εἴωθα, to be accustomed, to be wont. Pf. associated with pres. ἔθω by grammarians. εἴωθα Il. 5.766, etc., Ep. and Ion. ἔωθα 8.408, etc., is used as pres.; plpf. εἰώθειν, Ion. ἐώθεα, as impf.; part. εἰωθώς, Ion. ἐωθώς, also in Archipp. 48, Araros19; Dor. 3pl. pf. ἐθώκατι Hsch.: mostly c. inf., Il. 5.766, Hdt. 3.31, Th. 1.99, etc.: impers., ὡς εἴωθε as is the custom, Ar. Ec. 282; ὥσπερ εἰώθει Plu. Sull. 9, etc.: freq. abs. in part., of persons, accustomed, customary, usual, ἡνιόχῳ εἰωθότι Il. 5.231; ὑμῖν . . τοῖς εἰώθοσιν who are used [to hear me], S. Ph. 939; οὐκ ἐωθώς praeter morem, Hdt. 1.111; of things, τὰ ἐωθότα νοήματα Id. 3.80; ἐν τῷ εἰ. τρόπῳ Pl. Ap. 27b, etc.: freq. in neut., παρὰ τὸ εἰ. contrary to custom, Th. 4.17,55; τὰ εἰ. ordinary things, Ar. Ra. 1, Th. 2.51, etc.
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