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

  • ἄνακτοσ αὐτοῦ πάντα πεύσομαι λόγον. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 3:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἐφράσθησ καί τοι θεὸσ ἔμβαλε θυμῷ, εἴπ’ ἄγε μοι τὸν ἀέθλον, ἐπεὶ καὶ ὄπισθεν, ὀί̈ω, πεύσομαι, αὐτίκα δ’ ἐστὶ δαήμεναι οὔ τι χέρειον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 23 30:3)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ νέῳ καὶ πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ ἁπλῶσ ἀεὶ τῷ ἐντυγχάνοντι προσελθὼν πεύσομαι ταῦτα ἃ καὶ νῦν πυνθάνομαι, πολὺ δὲ μάλιστα ὑμῶν, φησί, τῶν πολιτῶν, ὅτι ἐγγυτέρω μου γένει ἐστέ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 20:2)
  • καὶ εἰ συγχωρεῖτέ μοι, καὶ νῦν πεύσομαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 5 9:5)

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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