γένοιντʼ (genoint)

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

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hippolytus 961: τῆσδ’ ἂν γένοιντ’ ἄν, ὥστε σ’ αἰτίαν φυγεῖν;

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 20: … ι τὸ δʼ ὅλον φαύλως ζῶντες οὐδὲ τοῖς δούλοις παρρησίαν ἄγουσιν ἐπιτιμᾶν, μὴ τί γε τοῖς υἱοῖς. χωρὶς δὲ τούτων γένοιντʼ ἂν αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀδικημάτων σύμβουλοι καὶ διδάσκαλοι. ὅπου γὰρ γέροντές εἰσιν ἀναίσχυντοι, ἐνταῦθʼ ἀνάγκη καὶ νέ …

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.