Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γείνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γείνομαι ἐγεινάμην

Structure: γείν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from an obsol. act. Gei/nw genna/w

Sense

  1. I am born
  2. I beget, bring into being

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • ἦμεν τύραννοι κἀσ τύρανν’ ἐγημάμην, κἀνταῦθ’ ἀριστεύοντ’ ἐγεινάμην τέκνα, οὐκ ἀριθμὸν ἄλλωσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπερτάτουσ Φρυγῶν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic13)
  • κοὐ τὸ σὸν μὲν εὖ παρὰ δίκην ἔσται κακίστησ εὔνιδοσ τιμωρίᾳ, ἐμὲ δὲ συντήξουσι νύκτεσ ἡμέραι τε δακρύοισ, ἄνομα δρῶντα κοὐ δίκαια παῖδασ οὓσ ἐγεινάμην. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:18)

Synonyms

  1. I am born

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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