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

  • πάντων, ὁ δὲ ἄπιστοσ τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ ἀποστείλασ τὸν παῖδα ὀψωνήσοντα ἕτερον παῖδα πέμπειν τὸν πευσόμενον, πόσου ἐπρίατο. (Theophrastus, Characters, 2:1)
  • ὁ οὖν πατὴρ συνδήσασ τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτοῦ, καταβαλὼν εἰσ τάφρον τινά, πέμπει δεῦρο ἄνδρα πευσόμενον τοῦ ἐξηγητοῦ ὅτι χρείη ποιεῖν. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 15:4)
  • πέμπω εἰσ ἄστυ, πευσόμενον περὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ· (Lysias, Speeches, 18:4)
  • τοσαύτησ δὴ γενόμενοσ ἐξουσίασ ὁ Σέξτοσ κύριοσ δι’ ἀπάτησ καὶ φενακισμοῦ τῶν θεραπόντων τινὰ λαθὼν τοὺσ Γαβίουσ πέμπει πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα τήν τ’ ἐξουσίαν, ἣν εἰληφὼσ ἦν, δηλώσοντα καὶ πευσόμενον, τί χρὴ ποιεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 56 1:1)
  • πέμψω δ’ ἐσ Σπάρτην τε καὶ ἐσ Πύλον ἠμαθόεντα νόστον πευσόμενον πατρὸσ φίλου, ἤν που ἀκούσῃ, ἠδ’ ἵνα μιν κλέοσ ἐσθλὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἔχῃσιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 9:4)

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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