Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πένομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένομαι

Structure: πέν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to work for one's daily bread, to toil, work, labour
  2. to be poor or needy
  3. to be poor in, have need of
  4. to work at, prepare, get ready

Examples

  • ὀγδοάτη δ’ ἐνάτη τε, δύω γε μὲν ἤματα μηνὸσ ἔξοχ’ ἀεξομένοιο βροτήσια ἔργα πένεσθαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 94:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ οὗτοσ ὦ φίλ’ Ἄπολλον <ἀεὶ> πεινῇ, θαλεροῖσ δακρύοισ σᾶσ ἁπτόμενοσ φαρέτρασ Πυθῶνι δίᾳ μὴ κακῶσ πένεσθαι. (Aristotle, Parabasis, strophe2)
  • ὥστε περὶ τῶν μειζόνων ἃ φήσ, ἀφελεῖν τὸ ἄνισον καὶ ἐκ τῆσ ὁμοίασ ἢ πένεσθαι ἢ πλουτεῖν ἅπαντασ, ὁ Ζεὺσ ἂν χρηματίσειεν ὑμῖν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 2 1:6)
  • ὥστε δυοῖν θάτερον, ἤ μὴ διδόντα ἐχθρὸν εἶναι πάντωσ ἔδει ἢ πάντα προϊέμενον αὐτίκα μάλα πένεσθαι καὶ τῶν αἰτούντων καὶ αὐτὸν εἶναι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 4 2:4)
  • οὔκουν ἐθέλει γε τριηραρχεῖν πλουτῶν οὐδεὶσ διὰ ταῦτα, ἀλλὰ ῥακίοισ περιειλάμενοσ κλάει καὶ φησὶ πένεσθαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antepirrheme 1:21)

Synonyms

  1. to work for one's daily bread

  2. to be poor or needy

  3. to be poor in

  4. to work at

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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