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

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ Κρονικαῖσ λήμαισ ὄντωσ λημῶντεσ τὰσ φρένασ ἄμφω, ὁ Ζεὺσ δήπου πένεται, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἤδη φανερῶσ σε διδάξω. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:35)

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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