Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

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

  • οὐδὲ πυνθάνεσθε ταῦτ’ ὦ παρθένοι τἀν τῇ πόλει; (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme2)
  • νῦν γὰρ εἰσ τὴν Σικελίαν προφάσει μέν, ᾗ πυνθάνεσθε, διανοίᾳ δέ, ἣν πάντεσ ὑπονοοῦμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 48 3:3)
  • "ἐμοῦ πυνθάνεσθε, Κάσκα, καὶ οὐ πράττετε τὸ δόξαν ὑμῖν; (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 45 6:1)
  • καὶ ἴσωσ ἄν, ἴσωσ, ὥσπερ νῦν ὑμεῖσ πυνθάνεσθε τί ποιεῖ Φίλιπποσ καὶ ποῖ πορεύεται, οὕτωσ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ φροντίσαι ποῖ ποθ’ ἡ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀπῆρκεν δύναμισ καὶ ποῦ φανήσεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 26:2)
  • παρὰ γὰρ τῶν λεγόντων, οὓσ ἴστ’ ἐπὶ μισθῷ τοῦτο πράττοντασ, πυνθάνεσθε ποῖόν τιν’ ἕκαστον δεῖ νομίζειν, οὐκ αὐτοὶ θεωρεῖτε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 27:2)

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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