Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γίγνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γίγνομαι γενήσομαι ἐγενόμην γέγονα γεγένημαι

Structure: γίγν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: gi/-gnomaigi-ge/nomai의 모음이 생략된 형태. 존재의 의미를 가진 어근은 GEN; 참고: aor. 2 gene/sqai, ge/nos; 마찬가지로 라틴어 gi-gno의 원형은 gi-geno였음.

Sense

  1. to come into being, (of people) to be born
  2. (of things) to be produced
  3. (of events) to take place

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Perfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular γέγονα γέγονας γέγονεν*
Dual γεγόνατον γεγόνατον
Plural γεγόναμεν γεγόνατε γεγόνᾱσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular γεγόνω γεγόνῃς γεγόνῃ
Dual γεγόνητον γεγόνητον
Plural γεγόνωμεν γεγόνητε γεγόνωσιν*
OptativeSingular γεγόνοιμι γεγόνοις γεγόνοι
Dual γεγόνοιτον γεγονοίτην
Plural γεγόνοιμεν γεγόνοιτε γεγόνοιεν
ImperativeSingular γέγονε γεγονέτω
Dual γεγόνετον γεγονέτων
Plural γεγόνετε γεγονόντων
Infinitive γεγονέναι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
γεγονως γεγονοντος γεγονυῑα γεγονυῑᾱς γεγονον γεγονοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular γεγένημαι γεγένησαι γεγένηται
Dual γεγένησθον γεγένησθον
Plural γεγενήμεθα γεγένησθε γεγένηνται
ImperativeSingular γεγένησο γεγενήσθω
Dual γεγένησθον γεγενήσθων
Plural γεγένησθε γεγενήσθων
Infinitive γεγένησθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
γεγενημενος γεγενημενου γεγενημενη γεγενημενης γεγενημενον γεγενημενου

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

  • Καὶ ἐλάλησε Μωυσῆσ καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖσ οἱ Λευῖται παντὶ Ἰσραὴλ λέγοντεσ. σιώπα καὶ ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ. ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ γέγονασ εἰσ λαὸν Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 27:9)
  • γέγονασ δ’ ἀληθῶσ, ὡσ λέγουσι, πλούσιοσ; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode17)
  • τὰ δ’ ἄλλα σοι πρόσεστι δημαγωγικά, φωνὴ μιαρά, γέγονασ κακῶσ, ἀγοραῖοσ εἶ· (Aristotle, Prologue 6:4)
  • ἄλλοθεν γέγονασ, ἄλλοθεν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • ὦ παῖ, θεῶν τοῦ κλέμμα γέγονασ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, lyric1)

Synonyms

  1. to come into being

  2. to be produced

  3. to take place

Related

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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