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ἐκπυνθάνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκπυνθάνομαι ἐκπεύσομαι ἐξεπυθόμην

Structure: ἐκ (Prefix) + πυνθάν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to search out, make enquiry
  2. to enquire about, hear of, learn, to make inquiry of

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ τὸν ἐμὸν ἱδρῶτα καὶ φειδωλίαν οὐδὲν πρὸσ ἔποσ οὕτωσ ἀνοήτωσ ἐκβαλῶ, πρὶν <ἂν> ἐκπύθωμαι πᾶν τὸ πρᾶγμ’ ὅπωσ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:4)
  • σκαιῶσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ χαλεπῶσ ἐκπυνθάνει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 2:8)
  • φέρ’ ἐκπύθωμαι τῶνδε πλησίον σταθείσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 2:26)
  • ἀσθενοῦντασ ἐκπυνθάνεσθαι τὰσ αἰτίασ, μὴ σοφιστικῶσ μηδὲ περιέργωσ ἐνστάσεισ καὶ παρεμπτώσεισ καὶ κοινότητασ λαλοῦντα καὶ παρεπιδεικνύμενον ἰατρικῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ γραμμάτων ἐμπειρίαν, ἀλλὰ ταυτὶ τὰ φαῦλα καὶ κοινὰ μὴ παρέργωσ ἀκούοντα, πλῆθοσ ἡλίωσιν κόπον ἀγρυπνίαν, μάλιστα δὲ δίαιταν ᾗ χρώμενοσ ἐπύρεξεν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 15 2:1)
  • "φεύγουσι γὰρ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν ἱππαρχηκότων νομίμωσ, μᾶλλον δὲ πάντεσ πλὴν Γοργίδου καὶ Πλάτωνοσ, ὧν οὐδ’ ἂν ἐπιχειρήσειαν ἐκπυνθάνεσθαι δεδιότεσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 5 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. to enquire about

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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