πονέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
πονέω
Structure:
πονέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to work hard, do work, suffer toil, were busied, was busy
- to be in distress, to distress oneself, to suffer, be sick
- to work hard at, to make or do with pains or care
- to toil, labour, to labour, do
- to go through, suffer
- to labour, be hard-pressed, suffer, to be worn out, spoilt
- to afflict, distress, to be worn out, to suffer greatly
- to be trained or educated
- to gain by toil or labour, to be won or achieved by toil
Conjugation
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.
- ὡσ δὲ οὐ μάτην ἐπόνουν οὐ δοκεῖ ὑμῖν καὶ τάδε τεκμήρια εἶναι, τὸ πολλοὺσ μὲν πολίτασ τῶν ἀρετῆσ ἐφιεμένων, πολλοὺσ δὲ ξένων, ἐκ πάντων προαιρεῖσθαι ἐμοὶ ξυνεῖναι; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 18:1)
- πρῴην τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπόνουν, καὶ πήγανον αὐτὴν ᾔτουν ἡ δ’ ἔφερεν τήγανον ὀστράκινον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 74 1:1)
- οὐχ ὑμῖν ἐπόνουν, τοῖσ δ’ ἔμ’ ἐπισταμένοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1283)
- ὥστε καὶ ἡδέωσ ἐπόνουν καὶ θαρραλέωσ ἐκτῶντο καὶ ὃ ἐπέπατο αὖ τισ ἥκιστα Κῦρον ἔκρυπτεν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 9 20:2)
- δῆλον γὰρ ὡσ κἀκεῖνοι μᾶλλον ἐβούλοντο μὴ κινδυνεύειν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐπόνουν, ἵνα καταστῇ ποτε τὰ πράγματα, πλὴν ὅτι γε οὐκ ἴσα ὑμῖν ἀνήλισκον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 136:3)
Synonyms
-
to work hard
-
to be in distress
- τείρω (to suffer distress)
- μογέω (to suffer pain, be distressed)
-
to work hard at
-
to toil
- ἐπασκέω (to labour or toil at, finish carefully)
- μογέω (to labour at)
- συγκάμνω (to work, toil or travail with, to join in labour)
-
to go through
-
to afflict
- ἀτάομαι (to suffer greatly, be in dire distress)
- ὀϊζύω (to suffer, to suffer greatly)
-
to be trained or educated
Derived
- διαπονέω (to work out with labour, to get worked out, to be managed)
- ἐκπονέω (to work out, finish off, wrought)
- ἐπιπονέω (to toil on, persevere)
- προπονέω (to work or labour beforehand, to work for or instead of, to work for)
- προσεπιπονέω (to work still more, to take the additional trouble)
- συμπονέω (to work with or together, to take part in labouring, with)
- συνεκπονέω (to help in working out, to help in achieving or effecting, to assist to the utmost)
- ὑπερπονέω (to labour beyond measure, take further trouble, to bear or endure for)
