γενώμεθα (genometha)

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

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.22.6: ἄγε, εἶπεν, ὦ βασιλεῦ Λακεδαιμονίων, ὅπως, ἐπὰν ἔξω γενώμεθα, μηδεὶς ἴδῃ δακρύοντας ἡμᾶς μηδὲ ἀνάξιόν τι τῆς Σπάρτης ποιοῦντας. τοῦτο γὰρ ἐφʼ ἡμῖν μόνον αἱ τύχαι δέ, ὅπως …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.1.43: ἀκούσαντες ταῦτα ἐπήροντο· ἢν δὲ γενώμεθά σοι φίλοι, τί ἡμῖν ἀξιώσεις χρῆσθαι; ἀπεκρίνατο ὁ Κῦρος εὖ ποιεῖν καὶ εὖ πάσχειν. ἐπηρώτων πάλιν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι …

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.