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

  • ἀλλ’ ἕκαστα πυνθάνου, μὴ πάνθ’ ὁμοῦ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric8)
  • τῇδε πᾶσ ἕπου δίωκε καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα πυνθάνου τῶν ὁδοιπόρων ἁπάντων· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees1)
  • πατρῴων ἐκ δόμων τι πυνθάνου. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 9:12)
  • ὁ ταριχοπώλησ ἐστὶν ἐλθὼν πυνθάνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 86 4:8)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ πάνυ μακρᾶσ ἐπιστολῆσ ἦν, ἔγραψα ἂν ἃ ἔλεγεν, νῦν δὲ Λεπτίνου πυνθάνου. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 31:1)

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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