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

  • πεύσει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 1:21)
  • πεύσει δ’, ὥστε μαρτυρεῖν ἐμοί. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, dialogue 1:5)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ἡνίχ’ ἱκόμην τὸ Πυθικὸν μαντεῖον, ὡσ μάθοιμ’ ὅτῳ τρόπῳ πατρὶ δίκασ ἀροίμην τῶν φονευσάντων πάρα, χρῇ μοι τοιαῦθ’ ὁ Φοῖβοσ ὧν πεύσει τάχα· (Sophocles, episode 2:4)
  • ὅμωσ δ’, ὅσον γε κἀν ἐμοὶ μνήμησ ἔνι, πεύσει τὰ κείνησ ἀθλίασ παθήματα. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:4)
  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ οὐ ταὐτὰ πᾶσι λυσιτελεῖ τοῖσ σώμασιν οὔτε νοσοῦσιν οὔτε ὑγιαίνουσι λέγω, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οὐ ταὐτὰ νοσοῦσί τε καὶ ὑγιαίνουσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον οὔτε ἐν ταῖσ νόσοισ ἅπασι ταὐτὰ οὔτ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ ὑγιείασ αὐτῶν πεύσει τῶν ἰατρῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 37:1)

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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