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

  • ταύταισιν οὖν ὦνδρεσ παραδόντεσ τὴν πόλιν μὴ περιλαλῶμεν, μηδὲ πυνθανώμεθα τί ποτ’ ἄρα δρᾶν μέλλουσιν, ἀλλ’ ἁπλῷ τρόπῳ ἐῶμεν ἄρχειν, σκεψάμενοι ταυτὶ μόνα, ὡσ τοὺσ στρατιώτασ πρῶτον οὖσαι μητέρεσ σῴζειν ἐπιθυμήσουσιν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 6:22)
  • ἢ βούλει ὧδε πυνθανώμεθα παρ’ αὐτοῦ, λέγοντεσ ὡσ εἴ τι οἶδεν οὐδεὶσ αὐτῷ φθόνοσ, ἀλλ’ ἅσμενοι ἂν ἴδοιμεν εἰδότα τι. (Plato, Republic, book 5 646:2)

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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