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

  • ἀκούω καὶ ταῦτα εἰ δὲ ἀληθῆ ἔστιν, σὺ ἄν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, καὶ οἱ ποιηταὶ εἰδείητε. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 4:10)
  • "ὡσ δὲ εἰδείητε οἱο͂́ν τι τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστι τὸ καυθησόμενον, ἀκούσατέ μου ἐξ ἀρχῆσ παραφυλάξαντοσ τὴν γνώμην αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν βίον ἐπιτηρήσαντοσ· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:2)
  • πῶσ οὖν οὐκ ἂν εἰδείητε τούτων ἁπάντων τῇ τύχῃ τὴν χάριν καὶ τοῦ γένουσ, ὅτι Ἕλληνεσ, καὶ τῆσ μεταβολῆσ, ὅτι ἐκ πενήτων εὐδαίμονεσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 30:5)
  • σχεδὸν ὃ παντάπασιν ὑμεῖσ ἔξω ζῶντεσ οὐκ ἂν εἰδείητε, ἀλλὰ ὑμᾶσ ἂν λανθάνοι. (Plato, Laws, book 10 11:1)
  • εἰδείητε δ’ ἂν ὑμεῖσ μάλιστα κἀγὼ παρ’ ὑμῶν τινῶν ταῦτα πυνθάνομαι, ὡσ ὑμῖν μικροῦ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν ἐκ καινῆσ ἀνώρθωσεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:7)

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