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ἐκπυνθάνομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: ekpynthanomai

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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