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

  • ἀλλ’, ἔφη, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ μεταβαλὼν ἀντὶ τοῦ καλοῦ τῷ ἀγαθῷ χρώμενοσ πυνθάνοιτο· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 343:1)
  • μέλει δ̓ αὐτοῖσ ὅπωσ μὴ δοκῶσιν ὡσ τυφλοί τε καὶ κωφοὶ μετειληφέναι τούτων, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπαλλαγέντεσ ἔχωσί τι εἰπεῖν περὶ αὐτῶν, εἴ τισ πυνθάνοιτο, ἅ τε εἶδον ἅ τε ἔγνωσαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 70:1)
  • εἴ τινα πυνθάνοιτο ὑβρίζοντα, τοῦτον ὅκωσ μεταπέμψαιτο κατ’ ἀξίην ἑκάστου ἀδικήματοσ ἐδικαίευ, καὶ οἱ κατάσκοποί τε καὶ κατήκοοι ἦσαν ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν χώρην τῆσ ἦρχε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 100 3:2)
  • ταῦτα ἀκούσαντα τὸν Μυκερῖνον, ὡσ κατακεκριμένων ἤδη οἱ τούτων, λύχνα ποιησάμενον πολλά, ὅκωσ γίνοιτο νύξ, ἀνάψαντα αὐτὰ πίνειν τε καὶ εὐπαθέειν, οὔτε ἡμέρησ οὔτε νυκτὸσ ἀνιέντα, ἔσ τε τὰ ἕλεα καὶ τὰ ἄλσεα πλανώμενον καὶ ἵνα πυνθάνοιτο εἶναι ἐνηβητήρια ἐπιτηδεότατα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 133 5:1)

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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