πένομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to weave, spin”). Cognate with Lithuanian pìnti (“to braid, plait”), Old Church Slavonic пѧти (pęti, “to tie, fix”), Old English spinnan (“to spin”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.no.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.no.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.no.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.no.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.no.me/
Conjugation
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle | indicative | πένομαι | πένῃ, πένει |
πένεται | πένεσθον | πένεσθον | πενόμεθᾰ | πένεσθε | πένονται | ||||
subjunctive | πένωμαι | πένῃ | πένηται | πένησθον | πένησθον | πενώμεθᾰ | πένησθε | πένωνται | |||||
optative | πενοίμην | πένοιο | πένοιτο | πένοισθον | πενοίσθην | πενοίμεθᾰ | πένοισθε | πένοιντο | |||||
imperative | πένου | πενέσθω | πένεσθον | πενέσθων | πένεσθε | πενέσθων | |||||||
infinitive | πένεσθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | πενόμενος | |||||||||||
f | πενομένη | ||||||||||||
n | πενόμενον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
Imperfect: ἐπενόμην
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle | indicative | ἐπενόμην | ἐπένου | ἐπένετο | ἐπένεσθον | ἐπενέσθην | ἐπενόμεθᾰ | ἐπένεσθε | ἐπένοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle | indicative | πενόμην | πένου | πένετο | πένεσθον | πενέσθην | πενόμε(σ)θᾰ | πένεσθε | πένοντο | ||||
Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
Derived terms
- ἀμφιπένομαι (amphipénomai)
- πενέστης (penéstēs)
- συμπένομαι (sumpénomai)
Further reading
- “πένομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πένομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πένομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πένομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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