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γίνου (ginou)

γίνου is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive imperative.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 48.2: … ὶ παρασήμῳ μιμούμενος, ὑποψίαν καὶ φθόνον ἔσχεν, ὥστε καὶ Παρμενίωνά ποτε εἰπεῖν πρός αὐτόν ὦ παῖ, χείρων μοι γίνου.

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.