Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πυνθάνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυνθάνομαι πεύσομαι ἐπυθόμην πέπυσμαι

Structure: πυνθάν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. I learn, I learn (accusative) from (genitive)
  2. (with accusative) I hear or learn
  3. (with genitive) I hear about, ask about
  4. (with participle) I learn that
  5. (with interrogative clause) I ask

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

  • "ἔνια δὲ παρὰ τῶν πολιτῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπυνθανόμην καὶ οἷσ ἀνάγκη ἦν ἀκριβῶσ εἰδέναι αὐτόν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:3)
  • ἔνθα καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον λύχνον ἐγνώρισα, καὶ προσειπὼν αὐτὸν περὶ τῶν κατ’ οἶκον ἐπυνθανόμην ὅπωσ ἔχοιεν ὁ δέ μοι ἅπαντα ἐκεῖνα διηγήσατο. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 29:8)
  • οὔπω δὲ δύο ἢ τρεῖσ ἡμέραι διεληλύθεσαν, καὶ προσελθὼν ἐγὼ Ὁμήρῳ τῷ ποιητῇ, σχολῆσ οὔσησ ἀμφοῖν, τά τε ἄλλα ἐπυνθανόμην καὶ ὅθεν εἰή. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 20:1)
  • πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοτε τοῦτο ἐποίουν, εἴ ποτε αὐτὸν σχολὴν ἄγοντα ἑώρων προσιὼν γάρ τι ἐπυνθανόμην αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὃσ προθύμωσ πάντα ἀπεκρίνετο, καὶ μάλιστα μετὰ τὴν δίκην, ἐπειδὴ ἐκράτησεν ἦν γάρ τισ γραφὴ κατ’ αὐτοῦ ἐπενηνεγμένη ὕβρεωσ ὑπὸ Θερσίτου ἐφ’ οἷσ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ποιήσει ἔσκωψεν, καὶ ἐνίκησεν ὁ Ὅμηροσ Ὀδυσσέωσ συναγορεύοντοσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 20:13)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πεπαιδευμένοσ ἦν ὁ νεανίσκοσ καὶ οὐχὶ παρὰ τῷ Μυρτίλῳ γε, ἀλλὰ παρὰ ἄλλῳ τινί, ὡσ ἐπυνθανόμην αὐτοῦ πῶσ εἰσ τὸν Μυρτίλον ἐνέπεσεν, ἔφη μοι τὰ ἐκ Νεοττίδοσ Ἀντιφάνουσ τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 72 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. I learn

  2. I hear or learn

  3. I hear about

  4. I learn that

  5. I ask

Related

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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