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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

  • ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐκκλησία μὲν οὐκέτ’ ἦν ὑπόλοιποσ οὐδεμία διὰ τὸ προκατακεχρῆσθαι, οὗτοι δ’ οὐκ ἀπῇσαν, ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ διέτριβον, γράφω ψήφισμα βουλεύων, τὴν βουλὴν ποιήσαντοσ τοῦ δήμου κυρίαν, ἀπιέναι τοὺσ πρέσβεισ τὴν ταχίστην, τὸν δὲ στρατηγὸν Πρόξενον κομίζειν αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ τόπουσ ἐν οἷσ ἂν ὄντα Φίλιππον πυνθάνηται, γράψασ ὥσπερ νῦν λέγω, τοῖσ ῥήμασιν οὕτωσ ἄντικρυσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 199:2)
  • μὴ συγχωρεῖν ἐν μηδενὶ τῶν τόπων τούτων, οὓσ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ τῷ σκήπωνι δεικνὺσ πυνθάνηται, τὸ τέρασ εὑρεθῆναι, ἀλλ’ ἐν Ῥώμῃ φάναι παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐν Ταρπηίῳ λόφῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 60 6:3)
  • ἀλλὰ ἵνα μηδεὶσ ὑποβλέπῃ με μηδὲ πυνθάνηται παρ’ ἑτέρων ὅστισ εἰμὶ καὶ ὁπόθεν ἔλθοιμι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:3)
  • ἄν τίσ σου πυνθάνηται, τί ἐστι τοῦτο, λέγε "ἡ γυνή μοι κακῶσ χρῆται". (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 7:3)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ὁπόσοι ἐσμὲν πυνθάνηται, συμπέμπειν τινὰ κέλευε καὶ μαθεῖν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 37:5)
  • εἰ καὶ ταύτην ταῖσ ἄλλαισ τέχναισ ἐγκαταλέξομεν, ὥστε ἐπειδὰν πυνθάνηταί τισ, ὁποία τισ αὕτη τέχνη ἐστί, λέγειν, οἱο͂ν γραμματικὴ ἢ ^ ἰατρική, παρασιτική. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 3:4)
  • καὶ κοινῇ μὲν ἐὰν πυνθάνηταί τισ τίνοσ ἐστὶν ἡ νῆσοσ ἢ τίνοσ ἡ Καρία, φήσουσι Ῥοδίων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 61:3)

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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