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.
- οὕτω μὲν ἐκράτησε πέμπειν ἐσ Λιβύην Σκιπίωνα, οὐ μὴν συνεχώρησαν αὐτῷ καταλέγειν στρατὸν ἐξ Ἰταλίασ πονουμένησ ἔτι πρὸσ Ἀννίβου· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 2:3)
- Ὅτι Ῥωμαῖοι τοῦ Φιλίππου τοῦ Μακεδόνοσ τοῦ πολεμήσαντοσ αὐτοῖσ πέρι πάμπαν ἐπολυπραγμόνουν οὐδέν, οὐδὲ σφίσιν ἐνθύμιοσ ἦν ὅλωσ πονουμένησ ἔτι τῆσ Ἰταλίασ ὑπὸ Ἀννίβου τοῦ Καρχηδονίων στρατηγοῦ, καὶ αὐτοὶ μεγάλοισ στρατοῖσ Λιβύην καὶ Καρχηδόνα καὶ Ἰβηρίαν περικαθήμενοι, καὶ καθιστάμενοι Σικελίαν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter1)
- πολεμοῦντοσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ πρὸσ τὸν Φιλοπάτορα Πτολεμαῖον καὶ πρὸσ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Πτολεμαῖον ἐπικληθέντα δὲ Ἐπιφανῆ, κακοπαθεῖν συνέβαινεν αὐτοῖσ καὶ νικῶντοσ καὶ πταίοντοσ ταὐτὰ πάσχειν, ὥστ’ οὐδὲν ἀπέλειπον χειμαζομένησ νεὼσ καὶ πονουμένησ ὑπὸ τοῦ κλύδωνοσ ἑκατέρωθεν μεταξὺ τῆσ εὐπραγίασ τῆσ Ἀντιόχου καὶ τῆσ ἐπὶ θάτερον αὐτοῦ τροπῆσ τῶν πραγμάτων κείμενοι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 152:1)
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)
