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οἶδα

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἶδα εἴσομαι οἶδα

Structure:

Sense

  1. (transitive) to know, be acquainted with [+accusative = something]
  2. (intransitive) to know how to [+infinitive = do something]
  3. (transitive, when main verb and participle have separate subjects) to know that [+accusative noun and accusative participle = someone else does something]

Conjugation

Future tense

Perfect 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

  • μόνον δὲ σὺν τέκνοισί μ’ εἰσάγει δόμουσ, ἵν’ ἄλλοσ μή τισ εἰδείη τάδε. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:2)
  • ἔρδοι τισ ἣν ἕκαστοσ εἰδείη τέχνην. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 4:15)
  • Ὦ Μένιππε, Ἀμφίλοχοσ μὲν οὗτοσ ἂν εἰδείη ὅ τι αὐτῷ ἀποκριτέον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, ἐγὼ δὲ ἡρ́ωσ εἰμὶ καὶ μαντεύομαι, ἤν τισ κατέλθῃ παῤ ἐμέ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ ὑπέρμεγα τοῦτο κακόν, εἰ μὴ εἰδείη τισ χωρίζειν τὰ ἱστορίασ καὶ τὰ ποιητικῆσ, ἀλλ̓ ἐπεισάγει τῇ ἱστορίᾳ τὰ τῆσ ἑτέρασ κομμώματα, τὸν μῦθον καὶ τὸ ἐγκώμιον καὶ τὰσ ἐν τούτοισ ὑπερβολάσ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ ἀθλητὴν τῶν καρτερῶν τούτων καὶ κομιδῇ πρινίνων ἁλουργίσι περιβάλοι καὶ τῷ ἄλλῳ κόσμῳ τῷ ἑταιρικῷ καὶ φυκίον ἐντρίβοι καὶ ψιμύθιον τῷ προσώπῳ, Ἡράκλεισ ὡσ καταγέλαστον αὐτὸν ἀπεργάσαιτο αἰσχύνασ τῷ κόσμῳ ἐκείνῳ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 8 2:1)
  • ἄρδοι τισ ἣν ἕκαστοσ εἰδείη τέχνην, ἐν Μαρωνείᾳ δὲ συμπίνων τισὶν ἐθέλειν ἔφη γνῶναι κατὰ τίνα τόπον ἐστὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἐὰν κατακαλύψαντεσ ἄγωσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 44 1:4)

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