γεννᾶσθαι (gennasthai)

γεννᾶσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of γεννάω, meaning “beget, give birth to”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.59: … οἱ ἄνθρωποι, εἰ ὁμοίως, ἔφη, ἄχθοιντο τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις οἱ μὴ ἀδικούμενοι. καὶ τὸν μὲν κόρον ὑπὸ τοῦ πλούτου γεννᾶσθαι, τὴν δὲ ὕβριν ὑπὸ τοῦ κόρου. ἠξίωσέ τε Ἀθηναίους τὰς ἡμέρας κατὰ σελήνην ἄγειν. καὶ Θέσπιν ἐκώλυσε τραγῳδίας …

All forms of γεννάω (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.