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γιγνώσκουσιν (gignoskousin)

γιγνώσκουσιν is an Ancient Greek form of γιγνώσκω, meaning “to come to know, recognize, perceive”. It is the present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta 6: αἱ βουλόμεναι μᾶλλον ἀνοήτων κρατεῖν ἀνδρῶν ἢ φρονίμων ἀκούειν ἐοίκασι τοῖς ἐν ὁδῷ βουλομένοις μᾶλλον ὁδηγεῖν τυφλοὺς; ἢ τοῖς γιγνώσκουσιν ἀκολουθεῖν καὶ βλέπουσι.

Demosthenes, Against Meidias 71: … τὸν παλαίσαντά ποτʼ ἐκεῖνον, τὸν νεανίσκον, καὶ Σώφιλον τὸν παγκρατιαστήν (ἰσχυρός τις ἦν, μέλας, εὖ οἶδʼ ὅτι γιγνώσκουσίν τινες ὑμῶν ὃν λέγω,) τοῦτον ἐν Σάμῳ ἐν συνουσίᾳ τινὶ καὶ διατριβῇ οὕτως ἰδίᾳ, ὅτι ὁ τύπτων αὐτὸν ὑβρίζειν ᾤετ …

All forms of γιγνώσκω (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.