Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἈπογραφήΜαρτυρίαι ἐλθὼν τοίνυν εἰσ τὸν Βόσπορον, ἔχων ἐπιστολὰσ παρ’ ἐμοῦ, ἃσ ἔδωκ’ αὐτῷ ἀπενεγκεῖν τῷ παιδὶ τῷ ἐμῷ παραχειμάζοντι ἐκεῖ καὶ κοινωνῷ τινί, γράψασ ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ τό τε ἀργύριον ὃ ἐδεδανείκειν καὶ τὴν ὑποθήκην, καὶ προστάξασ, ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα ἐξαιρεθῇ τὰ χρήματα, ἐξετάζειν καὶ παρακολουθεῖν, τὰσ μὲν ἐπιστολὰσ οὐκ ἀποδίδωσιν οὗτοσ ἃσ ἔλαβεν παρ’ ἐμοῦ, ἵνα μηδὲν εἰδείησαν ὧν ἔπραττεν οὗτοσ, καταλαβὼν δ’ ἐν τῷ Βοσπόρῳ μοχθηρὰ τὰ πράγματα διὰ τὸν συμβάντα πόλεμον τῷ Παιρισάδῃ πρὸσ τὸν Σκύθην καὶ τῶν φορτίων ὧν ἦγεν πολλὴν ἀπρασίαν, ἐν πάσῃ ἀπορίᾳ ἦν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 11:1)
  • τὴν δὲ κρίσιν ἔφη ποιήσειν, ἐπεὶ διαβαίησαν ἐκ τῆσ Ἀσίασ εἰσ τὴν Εὐρώπην, ἐν Χερρονήσῳ, ὅπωσ εὖ εἰδείησαν ὅτι τοὺσ στρατευομένουσ δεῖ εὐκρινεῖν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 7:1)
  • οὗτοσ δὴ ὦν οἱ ἐπανέστη μαθών τε τὸν Σμέρδιοσ θάνατον ὡσ κρύπτοιτο γενόμενοσ, καὶ ὡσ ὀλίγοι εἰήσαν οἱ ἐπιστάμενοι αὐτὸν Περσέων, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ περιεόντα μιν εἰδείησαν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 61 2:2)
  • τότε γοῦν τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἀνδρόμαχον ἀπελαθέντων λόγου καὶ παρρησίασ πρῶτον μὲν ὁ βασιλεὺσ ὅσουσ ᾤετο πιστοὺσ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ βασάνοισ ἀνέκρινεν, εἴ τι κατ’ αὐτοῦ τολμηθὲν εἰδείησαν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 291:1)

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