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

  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχουσ πάρεστιν ἄγγελοσ οὐδείσ, ὅτου πευσόμεθα τἀκεῖ πράγματα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene2)
  • σεῦ δὲ βοὰν αὐλοῖο μελίβρομον οὐκέτι Νύμφαι, ὡσ πάροσ, ἐν Φρυγίοισ οὔρεσι πευσόμεθα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 696 1:1)
  • οὐκοῦν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ἐπειδὴ πολὺ τὸ ἔργον, ἐκείνων πευσόμεθα πῶσ λέγουσι περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο πρὸσ τούτοισ· (Plato, Republic, book 7 337:1)

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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