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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

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular πένομαι πένει, πένῃ πένεται
Dual πένεσθον πένεσθον
Plural πενόμεθα πένεσθε πένονται
SubjunctiveSingular πένωμαι πένῃ πένηται
Dual πένησθον πένησθον
Plural πενώμεθα πένησθε πένωνται
OptativeSingular πενοίμην πένοιο πένοιτο
Dual πένοισθον πενοίσθην
Plural πενοίμεθα πένοισθε πένοιντο
ImperativeSingular πένου πενέσθω
Dual πένεσθον πενέσθων
Plural πένεσθε πενέσθων, πενέσθωσαν
Infinitive πένεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
πενομενος πενομενου πενομενη πενομενης πενομενον πενομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπενόμην ἐπένου ἐπένετο
Dual ἐπένεσθον ἐπενέσθην
Plural ἐπενόμεθα ἐπένεσθε ἐπένοντο

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

  • ἀμέλει τῶν πενομένων οἱ προσποιούμενοι πλουτεῖν ἔτι μᾶλλον πένονται διὰ τὴν ἀλαζονείαν · (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 11 11:3)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ πλουτεῦσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται· (Plutarch, , chapter 3 2:2)
  • ταὶ δ’ εὖ κομέουσιν ἐδωδῇ ἀνέρασ, ἠδὲ λοετρὰ λεχώια τοῖσι πένονται. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 17:6)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ πλουτοῦσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 132)
  • Πολλοί τοι πλουτοῦσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389164)

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

Similar forms

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

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