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γενόμην (genomen)

γενόμην is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 1st person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.77: … ὲ τὸν οὐρανὸν κρυσταλλοειδῆ. καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν παντοῖα εἴδη ζῴων καὶ φυτῶν ἐνδύεσθαι· φησὶ γοῦν· ἤδη γάρ ποτʼ ἐγὼ γενόμην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε θάμνος τʼ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔμπυρος ἰχθύς. Τὰ μὲν οὖν Περὶ φύσεως αὐτῷ καὶ οἱ Καθαρμοὶ ε …

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.