γίνεται (ginetai)

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

Found 1,716 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.21: … ης τῶν αἱρέσεων. ἀρέσκει δʼ αὐτῷ, καθά φησιν ἐν τῇ Στοιχειώσει, κριτήρια τῆς ἀληθείας εἶναι· τὸ μὲν ὡς ὑφʼ οὗ γίνεται ἡ κρίσις, τουτέστι τὸ ἡγεμονικόν· τὸ δὲ ὡς διʼ οὗ, οἷον τὴν ἀκριβεστάτην φαντασίαν. ἀρχάς τε τῶν ὅλων τήν τε …

Plutarch, Cicero 20.1: ταῦτα τοῦ Κικέρωνος διαποροῦντος γίνεταί τι ταῖς γυναιξὶ σημεῖον θυούσαις. ὁ γὰρ βωμός, ἤδη τοῦ πυρὸς κατακεκοιμῆσθαι δοκοῦντος, ἐκ τῆς τέφρας καὶ τῶν …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.213: Γίνεται δὲ Ἁβράμῳ μετʼ οὐ πολὺ καὶ παῖς ἐκ Σάρρας, ὡς αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ προείρητο, ὃν Ἴσακον ὠνόμασε· τοῦτο γέλωτα ση …

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.