γενέσθω (genestho)

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

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.52: … αὶ τὴν Νικομάχου εἰκόνα συντελεσθῆναι ἴσην. τὸ μὲν τῆς πλάσεως ἔχει Πραξιτέλης, τὸ δʼ ἄλλο ἀνάλωμα ἀπὸ τούτου γενέσθω. σταθῆναι δὲ ὅπου ἂν δοκῇ τοῖς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιμελουμένοις τῶν ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ γεγραμμένων. καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τὸ …

Demosthenes, Exordia 35.2: … ὐχ, ὡς φασίν, εὔνων ποιοῦσιν ἀνθρώπων. ἡδέως δʼ ἂν ἐροίμην αὐτούς ʽκαὶ μηδεμιᾶς λοιδορίας ὃ μέλλω λέγειν ἀρχὴ γενέσθὠ τί δὴ τἄλλʼ ἐπαινοῦντες Λακεδαιμονίους, ὃ μάλιστʼ ἄξιόν ἐστιν τῶν παρʼ ἐκείνοις ἄγασθαι, τοῦτʼ οὐ μιμοῦνται, …

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.