γενέσθαι (genesthai)

γενέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 4,964 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1011: ἄμφω ἅμʼ οἰωνοῖσι καὶ ἰχθύσι κύρμα γενέσθαι.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 1.17: κὤττʼ ἔμῳ μάλιστα θέλω γένεσθαι

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 7.41: Γενέσθαι δὲ συνέβη περὶ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον καὶ τοῖς ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ὑπολειπομένοις ἐγκλήματα καὶ κίνδυνον ὀλέ …

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.