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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

  • ἐὰν δὲ τοὺσ ἐπιφανεστάτουσ τῶν ἐξαμαρτανόντων τιμωρῆσθε, πάντεσ πεύσονται, ὥστε τούτῳ παραδείγματι χρώμενοι βελτίουσ ἔσονται οἱ πολῖται. (Lysias, Speeches, 16:4)
  • ἐὰν τοίνυν τούτου καταψηφίσησθε, οὐ μόνον οἱ ἐν τῇ πόλει εἴσονται, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ σύμμαχοι αἰσθήσονται καὶ οἱ πολέμιοι πεύσονται, καὶ ἡγήσονται πολὺ πλείονοσ ἀξίαν εἶναι τὴν πόλιν, ἐὰν ὁρῶσιν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων μάλισθ’ ὑμᾶσ ὀργιζομένουσ καὶ μηδεμιᾶσ συγγνώμησ τοὺσ ἀκοσμοῦντασ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τυγχάνοντασ. (Lysias, Speeches, 17:1)
  • καὶ μὲν δή, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, πᾶσιν ἡγοῦμαι φανερὸν εἶναι ὅτι οἱ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἀγῶνεσ κοινότατοι τυγχάνουσιν ὄντεσ τοῖσ ἐν τῇ πόλει, ὥστε πεύσονται ἥντινα γνώμην περὶ αὐτῶν ἔχετε, ἡγούμενοι, ἐὰν μὲν θάνατον τούτων καταγνῶτε, κοσμιωτέρουσ ἔσεσθαι τοὺσ λοιπούσ· (Lysias, Speeches, 28:1)
  • καραδοκοῦσι δὲ δή που πάντεσ, εἰ ἄσμενοι περιχυθέντεσ ἄλλοσ ἄλλοθεν πεύσονται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 13:17)

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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