γένοιτʼ (genoit)

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

Found 287 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 1230: ἄλλου γένοιτ’ ἂν ἄλλος, εὐδαίμων δ’ ἂν οὔ.

Euripides, Heracleidae 463: γένοιτʼ ὄνειδος ὡς ξένους προυδώκαμεν.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 1: … ἀναφροντίζων, ὡς μηδὲ ὁδῷ βαδίζων σχολὴν ἄγοις, ἀλλ’ ἐνεργὸς εἴης ἀεὶ σπουδαῖόν τι πράττων καὶ ὃ πρὸ ὁδοῦ σοι γένοιτ' ἂν ἐς τὰ μαθήματα. Νὴ Δί', ὦ Λυκῖνε, τοιοῦτό τι· τὴν γὰρ χθιζὴν συνουσίαν καὶ ἃ εἶπε πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἀνεπεμπαζόμην …

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.