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γενοῦ (genou)

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

Found 80 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 566: λάβ’, ὦ ξέν’, αὐτὸς οἰνοχόος τέ μοι γενοῦ.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 307: … ιν, καὶ αἱρεῖται, πολλὰ ζημιωθείς, ὀλίγα κερδᾶναι. αἱ δὲ παρὰ ἄρχουσι κρίσεις οὐδὲ τὴν νίκην ἀζήμιον φέρουσι. Γενοῦ δὴ βοηθός, ὦ φίλη κεφαλή, μάλιστα μὲν ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς κρινομένοις (εὐσεβὲς γὰρ) κωλύων τὴν εἴσοδον τὴν πρὸς τ …

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.