γένωνται (genontai)

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

Found 251 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76.3: ἐπαινεῖσθαί τε ἄξιοι οἵτινες χρησάμενοι τῇ ἀνθρωπείᾳ φύσει ὥστε ἑτέρων ἄρχειν δικαιότεροι ἢ κατὰ τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν δύναμιν γένωνται.

Hippocrates, Aphorismi 6.26: Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν ἐν τοῖσι καύσοισι τρόμοι γενωνται, παρακοπὴ λύει.

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.