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γίγνομαι

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Hellenic *gígnomai, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁eti, the reduplicated present stem of *ǵenh₁- (to beget; to give birth). Cognate with Latin gignō and nāscor.[1] The active forms were displaced by τίκτω (tíktō), causing Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁eti to degenerate into a deponent verb.

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    Verb

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    γῐ́γνομαι (gĭ́gnomai)

    1. to come into being
      1. (of people) to be born
        • c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1:
          Δαρείου καὶ Παρυσάτιδος γίγνονται παῖδες δύο
          Dareíou kaì Parusátidos gígnontai paîdes dúo
          Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them.
        • Socrates, Cratylus 398d:
          πάντες δήπου γεγόνασιν ἐρασθέντος ἢ θεοῦ θνητῆς ἢ θνητοῦ θεᾶς
          pántes dḗpou gegónasin erasthéntos ḕ theoû thnētês ḕ thnētoû theâs
          • Translation by Stefano Valente
            All of them sprang either from love of a god for a mortal woman, or of a mortal man for a goddess
      2. (of things) to be produced
      3. (of events) to take place
    2. (followed by a predicate) to become
    3. (aorist participle) having ceased to be: former, ex-
      γενόμενος στρατηγός
      ho genómenos stratēgós
      the ex-general
    4. (present participle) something that is due (of payments); regular, normal, usual

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    References

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    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “γίγνομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 272

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