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γένετʼ (genet)

γένετʼ is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1103: ὧς φάτο· τῷ δʼ ἀσπαστὸν ἔπος γένετʼ εἰσαΐοντι.

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 7 to Dionysus 44: γῇ πελάαν· ὃ δ’ ἄρα σφι λέων γένετ’ ἔνδοθι νηὸς

All forms of γίγνομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.