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προπυνθάνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπυνθάνομαι προπεύσομαι προὐπυθόμην

Structure: προ (Prefix) + πυνθάν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to learn by inquiring before, hear beforehand

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • εἰ μέν νυν προεπύθοντο ἢ ἔμαθον οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι τὸ ἐκ τοῦ Κύρου ποιεύμενον, οἳ δ’ ἂν περιιδόντεσ τοὺσ Πέρσασ ἐσελθεῖν ἐσ τὴν πόλιν διέφθειραν ἂν κάκιστα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 191 6:1)
  • ἐπιλέγων δὲ τὸν λόγον τόνδε ταῦτα ἐνετέλλετο, ὡσ εἰ μὲν ἀπώλοντο οἱ κατάσκοποι, οὔτ’ ἂν τὰ ἑωυτοῦ πρήγματα προεπύθοντο οἱ Ἕλληνεσ ἐόντα λόγου μέζω, οὔτ’ ἄν τι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ μέγα ἐσίναντο, ἄνδρασ τρεῖσ ἀπολέσαντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 147 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. to learn by inquiring before

Derived

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

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