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

  • τότε ἐπυνθανόμεθα τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τούτων λέγοντεσ. τίνοσ ὑμῖν προστάξαντοσ οἰκοδομεῖτε τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον καὶ τὰ ἔργα ταῦτα θεμελιοῦτε̣ (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 6:10)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πλῆθοσ τῶν μετ’ αἰκίασ ἀνῃρημένων ἕξ που μυριάδασ ὑπερβάλλειν ἐπυνθανόμεθα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 413:1)
  • τὰ μέν νυν μετέωρα τῶν οἰκημάτων αὐτοί τε ὡρῶμεν διεξιόντεσ καὶ αὐτοὶ θεησάμενοι λέγομεν, τὰ δὲ αὐτῶν ὑπόγαια λόγοισι ἐπυνθανόμεθα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 148 6:1)
  • ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ δέξεσθαι τὰ γράμματα ἔμελλε ‐ τουτὶ γὰρ ὕστερον ἔγνωμεν ἐκ τῶν ἀπαγγελθέντων, ἦν δὲ καὶ εὐθὺσ ἐκ λογισμοῦ τῶν ἡμερῶν τεκμαίρεσθαι ‐ ταύτῃ μοι ἐδόκει ὁ ἱερεὺσ ὁ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ οὗτοσ ὁ ἔτι νῦν ὢν καὶ ὁ τούτου πάπποσ, ἐφ’ οὗ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα ὡσ ἐπυνθανόμεθα ἐχειρούργησεν ὁ θεὸσ καὶ ἔστι δὴ ἐνδοξότατοσ τῶν μέχρι τούτου, οὗτοί μοι ἐδόκουν παρελθεῖν εἰσ τὴν τοῦ Κοδράτου καταγωγὴν καὶ συνεῖναι μάλα ἐγγύθεν, ὁ μὲν οὑτωσὶ παρακαθήμενοσ, ὁ δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ καθεζόμενοσ ἄνω τῆσ κλίνησ ὁ πρεσβύτεροσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:8)

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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