Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αἴσθομαι ‎(aísthomai)

Verb

αἰσθάνομαι • ‎(aisthánomai)

1. (transitive) I perceive, apprehend, notice [+genitive or accusative = something], [+nominative participle = oneself doing, that one is doing], [+genitive and genitive participle = that someone or something is doing, does], with ὅτι ‎(hóti) or ὡς ‎(hōs) and a verb: that ...
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, 2 51.4

     δεινότατον δὲ παντὸς ἦν τοῦ κακοῦ ἥ τε ἀθυμία ὁπότε τις αἴσθοιτο κάμνων

     The most horrible misery of all was the despair when someone felt themselves getting sick

   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, For Mantitheus 20

     ἤδη δέ τινων ᾐσθόμην, ὦ βουλή, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα ἀχθομένων μοι, ὅτι νεώτερος ὢν ἐπεχείρησα λέγειν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ.

     I have by now observed, council, that some people are annoyed at me that I am too young to attempt speaking in public.

   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Theag. 122.c

     αἰσθώμεθα γελοῖοι ὄντες

     we may see that we are ridiculous

2. (transitive, intransitive) I understand
3. (transitive) I learn

Inflection

References

• αἰσθάνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἰσθάνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «αἰσθάνομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «αἰσθάνομαι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G143”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill