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

  • τοὔνομα δ’ οὐ πεύσεσθε, κακοὶ δὲ κακῶσ ἀπόλοισθε. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 70 4:3)
  • οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ ὑμῖν ἀπιστῆσαί με χρή, σαφεῖ δὲ μύθῳ πᾶν ὅπερ προσχρῄζετε πεύσεσθε· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 1:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ αἴτιον αὐτῶν πεύσεσθε. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 48:2)
  • τοὔνομα δ’ οὐ πεύσεσθε, κακοὶ δὲ κακῶσ ἀπόλοισθε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3132)
  • οὔκ, ἂν ὑμεῖσ γέ μοι πείθησθε τὰ δίκαια καὶ ὅσια ποιοῦντεσ, καὶ ὅθεν μάλιστ’ ἀληθῆ πεύσεσθε καὶ οὐ μετανοήσαντεσ ὕστερον εὑρήσετε σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ ἡμαρτηκότασ τὰ μέγιστα εἰσ θεούσ τε καὶ ὑμᾶσ αὐτούσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 7 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. I learn

  2. I hear or learn

  3. I hear about

  4. I learn that

  5. I ask

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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