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

  • καί σ’ οὐδὲν εἴσω τῆσδε παπταίνειν πύλησ ἔτ’ ἔργον ἐστίν, ἐννέπειν δ’ ὅτου χάριν σπουδὴν ἔθου τήνδ’, ὡσ παρ’ εἰδυίασ μάθῃσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:5)
  • ἦν δὲ αὕτη θυγάτηρ Αἰήτου καὶ Εἰδυίασ τῆσ Ὠκεανοῦ, φαρμακίσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 23:11)
  • Πρόκλησισ τάδε προὐκαλεῖτο Ἀπολλόδωροσ Στέφανον περὶ ὧν τὴν γραφὴν γέγραπται Νέαιραν, ξένην οὖσαν ἀστῷ συνοικεῖν, ἕτοιμοσ ὢν τὰσ θεραπαίνασ παραλαμβάνειν τὰσ Νεαίρασ, ἃσ ἐκ Μεγάρων ἔχουσα ἦλθεν, Θρᾷτταν καὶ Κοκκαλίνην, καὶ ἃσ ὕστερον παρὰ Στεφάνῳ ἐκτήσατο, Ξεννίδα καὶ Δροσίδα, τὰσ εἰδυίασ ἀκριβῶσ περὶ τῶν παίδων τῶν ὄντων Νεαίρᾳ, ὅτι <οὐκ> ἐκ Στεφάνου εἰσίν, Πρόξενόσ τε ὁ τελευτήσασ καὶ Ἀρίστων ὁ νῦν ὢν καὶ Ἀντιδωρίδησ ὁ σταδιοδρομῶν καὶ Φανώ, ἐφ’ ᾧ τε βασανίσαι αὐτάσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 178:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μέντοι αἰσχρόν γε τῇ ψυχῇ ἡμῶν ἐστιν ἑκατέρου, τὰ μὲν ἐν αὐταῖσ φαίνεσθαι μὴ εἰδυίασ, ἐν οἷσ αὐταῖσ ἔνεστι καὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ φλαῦρον, τὰ δὲ τοῦ σώματοσ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐσκέφθαι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 53:4)
  • καὶ λέγεισ δὴ τὰσ μοίρασ τὰσ διττὰσ ἀκηκοέναι παρὰ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἄριστα εἰδυίασ περὶ αὐτῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:6)

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