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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

  • "ὦ μοχθηρέ, τὰσ μὲν οἰκίασ καὶ τὰ τείχη καταλελοίπαμεν, οὐκ ἀξιοῦντεσ ἀψύχων ἕνεκα δουλεύειν, πόλισ δ’ ἡμῖν ἔστι μεγίστη τῶν Ἑλληνίδων, αἱ διακόσιαι τριήρεισ, αἳ νῦν μὲν ὑμῖν παρεστᾶσι βοηθοὶ σώζεσθαι δι’ αὐτῶν βουλομένοισ, εἰ δ’ ἄπιτε δεύτερον ἡμᾶσ προδόντεσ, αὐτίκα πεύσεταί τισ Ἑλλήνων Ἀθηναίουσ καὶ πόλιν ἐλευθέραν καὶ χώραν οὐ χείρονα κεκτημένουσ ἧσ ἀπέβαλον. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 4:1)
  • ὡσ εἰ τάδ’ ἡ τεκοῦσα πεύσεται, πικρὰν δοκῶ με πεῖραν τήνδε τολμήσειν ἔτι. (Sophocles, episode 8:6)
  • πεύσεται δ’ ἄλλοσ ἄλλοθεν, προφω‐ νῶν τὰ τῶν πέλασ κακά, λῆξιν ὑπόδοσίν τε μόχθων· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ὦ παῖδεσ, ὦ σωτῆρεσ ἑστίασ πατρόσ, σιγᾶθ’, ὅπωσ μὴ πεύσεταί τισ, ὦ τέκνα, γλώσσησ χάριν δὲ πάντ’ ἀπαγγείλῃ τάδε πρὸσ τοὺσ κρατοῦντασ· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:1)
  • στείχω δ’ ἐπ’ ἄνδρα τῶνδε λυμαντήριον οἴκων, θέλων δὲ τόνδε πεύσεται λόγον. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 1:19)

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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