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

  • οἱο͂ν πάλαι μὲν Ἀγαμέμνονα καὶ Ἀχιλλέα, τῶν κάτω δὲ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Πύρρον ἴσμεν γεγονότασ. (Lucian, (no name) 1:5)
  • δίκαιοσ δὲ εἶ μηδὲν παραλιπεῖν, ἀλλ’ εἰπεῖν ἅπαντα, ἐπειδὴ νεώτερόσ εἰμι τοῦ συμβολαίου, ἵνα ἀκούσαντεσ, περὶ ὧν οὐκ ἴσμεν, βουλευσώμεθα περὶ ὧν σὺ λέγεισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 1:3)
  • ἅνδρεσ γὰρ εἰ φεύγουσιν οὐκ ἴσμεν τορῶσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode12)
  • ἀδικήματα δὲ τοιαῦτα ῥητόρων καὶ φιλοσόφων ἄφθονα οὐ μόνον ἴσμεν αὐτοὶ γεγονότα καθ’ ἡμᾶσ, ἀλλὰ κἀν τοῖσ βιβλίοισ ἀπολελειμμένα ὑπομνήματα ἔχομεν ὧν ἠδίκησαν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 56:5)
  • φιλοσόφουσ μὲν γὰρ ἴσμεν ἅπαντασ ἢ τοὺσ πλείστουσ κακοὺσ κακῶσ ἀποθανόντασ, τοὺσ μὲν ἐκ καταδίκησ, ἑαλωκότασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ μεγίστοισ ἀδικήμασι, φαρμάκῳ, τοὺσ δὲ καταπρησθέντασ τὸ σῶμα ἅπαν, τοὺσ δὲ ἀπὸ δυσουρίασ φθινήσαντασ, τοὺσ δὲ φυγόντασ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 57:3)

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