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

  • ὁ δὲ οὐ πρότερον ἔφη ἐρεῖν οὐδὲ πεύσεσθαι παρ’ ἡμῶν, πρὶν ξενίων τῶν παρόντων μεταδοῦναι, καὶ λαβὼν ἡμᾶσ ἦγεν ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν ‐ ἐπεποίητο δὲ αὐτάρκη καὶ στιβάδασ ἐνῳκοδόμητο καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐξήρτιστο ‐ παραθεὶσ δὲ ἡμῖν λάχανά τε καὶ ἀκρόδρυα καὶ ἰχθῦσ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ οἶνον ἐγχέασ, ἐπειδὴ ἱκανῶσ ἐκορέσθημεν, ἐπυνθάνετο ἃ πεπόνθοιμεν· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 33:11)
  • οὐ γὰρ σὺ παῖσ τε κἄτι τοῦδ’ ἀνούστεροσ εἰ προσδοκᾷσ ἐμοῦ τι πεύσεσθαι πάρα; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:23)
  • ἐμοὶ δὲ ἀεὶ θαυμαστόσ τισ δοκεῖ εἶναι καὶ τούσ τε ἄλλουσ ἀνατρέπων καὶ αὐτὸσ αὑτόν ‐ οἶμαι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀλήθειαν παρὰ σοῦ κάλλιστα πεύσεσθαι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 147:1)
  • ἐπεμελεῖτο γὰρ καὶ τούτου ὁ Κῦροσ ὅπωσ ἁλίσκοιντο παρ’ ὧν ἔμελλε πεύσεσθαί τι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 15:3)
  • φιλίαν τε Ῥωμαίοισ προφέροντεσ οὐκ ἐλεεῖτε ἀκρίτουσ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ καὶ δημεύσει προγραφομένουσ, ἀλλ’ ὑποκρίνεσθε πεύσεσθαι τῆσ βουλῆσ τῆσ ταῦτα πασχούσησ καὶ οὐδὲ ἀμύνειν ἑαυτῇ πω δυναμένησ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 5:7)

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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