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γένωμαι (genomai)

γένωμαι is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 1st person singular aorist middle subjunctive.

Found 88 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.771: δειλὴ ἐγώ, νῦν ἔνθα κακῶν ἢ ἔνθα γένωμαι;

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 119: … σης προφάσεως καὶ νῦν προσεύχεσθαι ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, ἵνα, μεταβαλλόμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ φευκτοῦ τούτου καὶ βλαβεροῦ τρόπου, γένωμαί ποτε ἄξιος τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ. πάντως δέ, κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ λέγω, διαλεχθήσεσθε πρὸς ἀλλήλους περὶ τῶν καθʼ ἡμ …

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.