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

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ πυνθάνεσθαι τὸν βασιλέα περὶ τῆσ εὐνοίασ Μαρδοχαίου, ἰδοὺ Ἀμὰν ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ. εἶπε δὲ ὁ βασιλεύσ. τίσ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ̣ ὁ δὲ Ἀμὰν εἰσῆλθεν εἰπεῖν τῷ βασιλεῖ κρεμάσαι τὸν Μαρδοχαῖον ἐπὶ τῷ ξύλῳ, ᾧ ἡτοίμασε. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 6:4)
  • συνίησ δὲ οἱάσ εἰκὸσ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ καὶ μέγα δυναμένουσ τὰσ πύστεισ πυνθάνεσθαι. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:3)
  • ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν τούτων ἔξεστί σοι καθ̓ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν πυνθάνεσθαι· (Lucian, 10:7)
  • τί δ’ ἐάν ‐ τιθῶμεν γὰρ ταῦτα ‐ , ἐὰν κατὰ τὸ ψήφισμα τὸ Δημοσθένουσ ἀπαιτῇ πέμψασ ἡμᾶσ Ἀλέξανδροσ τὸ χρυσίον τὸ κομισθὲν εἰσ τὴν χώραν ὑφ’ Ἁρπάλου, καὶ πρὸσ τῷ γεγενῆσθαι τὴν τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀπόφασιν τοὺσ παῖδασ καταπέμψῃ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ τοὺσ νῦν ὡσ ἑαυτὸν ἀνακεκομισμένουσ, καὶ τούτων ἀξιοῖ πυνθάνεσθαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἡμᾶσ, πρὸσ θεῶν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, τί ἐροῦμεν; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 82:1)
  • παραγένηται τῷ σώματι , παρόντα τῇ γνώμῃ καὶ τῷ πυνθάνεσθαι τὰ μὲν ἀποδεχόμενον τοῖσ δὲ δυσκολαίνοντα τῶν πραττομένων. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 26 12:1)

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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