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

  • τὸ ἀντίγραφον τῆσ ἐπιστολῆσ, ἧσ ἐγράψαμεν Λασθένει τῷ συγγενεῖ ἡμῶν περὶ ὑμῶν, γεγράφαμεν καὶ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ὅπωσ εἰδῆτε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:31)
  • λέγε δὴκαὶ τὸ περὶ ζητήσεωσ τῶν χρημάτων ψήφισμα, ἃ ἔγραψε Δημοσθένησ τῇ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλῇ περὶ αὑτοῦ τε καὶ ὑμῶν, ἵνα παρ’ ἄλληλα θεωρήσαντεσ εἰδῆτε τὴν Δημοσθένουσ ἀπόνοιαν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 99:1)
  • ἵνα δὲ μὴ λόγον οἰήσθε εἶναι ἀλλ’ εἰδῆτε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἀναγνώσεται καὶ τούτων ὑμῖν τὰσ μαρτυρίασ. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 32:3)
  • ἵνα δ’ εἰδῆτε ὅτι οὐ λόγον ἀναπόδεικτον εἴρηκα, ἀλλὰ μετ’ ἀληθείασ παραδείγματα, φέρε αὐτοῖσ τὸν νόμον. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 179:4)
  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν, ὧν εἴρηκα, τούτων βούλομαι τὰσ μαρτυρίασ παρασχόμενοσ μετὰ ταῦτα, ὅσα ὑπὸ τούτου πέπονθα, ἐπιδεῖξαι, ἵνα εἰδῆτε, ὅτι ᾧ προσῆκε τοῖσ τὸ πρῶτον ἁμαρτηθεῖσιν ἐπιτιμᾶν, οὗτοσ αὐτὸσ πρὸσ τούτοισ πολλῷ δεινότερα διαπέπρακται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 12 3:4)

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