γίγνοιτʼ (gignoit)

γίγνοιτʼ is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive optative.

Found 94 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Isocrates, To Philip, I 17: οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖν’ ἔχω περὶ αὐτῆς εἰπεῖν, ὅτι χρησιμωτέραν οὐκ ἂν εὕροις ταύτης οὔτε τοῖς Ἕλλησιν οὔτε τοῖς σοῖς πράγμασιν· ᾧ μάλιστα προσεκτέον τὸν νοῦν ἐστίν. οὐ γὰρ μόνον συναγωνιζομένη γίγνοιτ’ ἂν αἰτία σοι πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν,

Sophocles, Philoctetes 116: θηρατέʼ οὖν γίγνοιτʼ ἄν, εἴπερ ὧδʼ ἔχει.

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.