Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πεύθομαι ‎(peúthomai) Poetic

Verb

πῠνθάνομαι • ‎(punthánomai)

1. I learn
   1. I learn (accusative) from (genitive)
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 599
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 737
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1417
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.91
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.408
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.537
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1266
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.1.3
   2. (with accusative) I hear or learn
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 765
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 25
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.22
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.119
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.411
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 7.7
   3. (with genitive) I hear about, ask about
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.224
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.281
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.256
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 635.b
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 35
   4. (with participle) I learn that
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 763
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.58
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.257
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.377
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.322
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.732
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 692
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.6
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.31
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.16
   5. (with interrogative clause) I ask
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.68
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 196.c
      • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 216.d
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.107.6
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 11
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 993
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.7
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.17
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.25
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.7

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References

• πυνθάνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυνθάνομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυνθάνομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πυνθάνομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πυνθάνομαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4441”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• BDAG