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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

  • οὖν κάλλιόν ἐστιν, ἀγαθὲ Τιμόκρατεσ, πενόμενον εἶναι λεπτότερον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 751)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ὑμᾶσ σοφωτάτουσ ἑώρων ὄντασ, ἐμαυτὸν δ’ ἀμαθέστατον, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ πολυφίλουσ ὑμᾶσ, ἐμαυτὸν δ’ ἔρημον φίλων, οὐδ’ αὖ πλουτοῦντασ, ἐμὲ δὲ πενόμενον, οὐδ’ αὖ ὑμᾶσ μὲν ὑπερευδοκιμοῦντασ, ἐμαυτὸν δὲ διαβεβλημένον, οὐδὲ τὰ μὲν ἐμὰ πράγματα κινδυνεύοντα, τὰ δ’ ὑμέτερα ἀσφαλῶσ ἔχοντα. (Lysias, Speeches, 9:2)

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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