κνήθω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κνάω (knáō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /knɛ̌ː.tʰɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkne̝.tʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.θo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkni.θo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkni.θo/
Verb
κνήθω • (knḗthō)
Conjugation
Present: κνήθω, κνήθομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | κνήθω | κνήθεις | κνήθει | κνήθετον | κνήθετον | κνήθομεν | κνήθετε | κνήθουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | κνήθω | κνήθῃς | κνήθῃ | κνήθητον | κνήθητον | κνήθωμεν | κνήθητε | κνήθωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | κνήθοιμῐ | κνήθοις | κνήθοι | κνήθοιτον | κνηθοίτην | κνήθοιμεν | κνήθοιτε | κνήθοιεν | |||||
| imperative | κνῆθε | κνηθέτω | κνήθετον | κνηθέτων | κνήθετε | κνηθόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | κνήθομαι | κνήθῃ, κνήθει |
κνήθεται | κνήθεσθον | κνήθεσθον | κνηθόμεθᾰ | κνήθεσθε | κνήθονται | ||||
| subjunctive | κνήθωμαι | κνήθῃ | κνήθηται | κνήθησθον | κνήθησθον | κνηθώμεθᾰ | κνήθησθε | κνήθωνται | |||||
| optative | κνηθοίμην | κνήθοιο | κνήθοιτο | κνήθοισθον | κνηθοίσθην | κνηθοίμεθᾰ | κνήθοισθε | κνήθοιντο | |||||
| imperative | κνήθου | κνηθέσθω | κνήθεσθον | κνηθέσθων | κνήθεσθε | κνηθέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | κνήθειν | κνήθεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | κνήθων | κνηθόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | κνήθουσᾰ | κνηθομένη | |||||||||||
| n | κνῆθον | κνηθόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Imperfect: ἔκνηθον, ἐκνηθόμην
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ἔκνηθον | ἔκνηθες | ἔκνηθε(ν) | ἐκνήθετον | ἐκνηθέτην | ἐκνήθομεν | ἐκνήθετε | ἔκνηθον | ||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐκνηθόμην | ἐκνήθου | ἐκνήθετο | ἐκνήθεσθον | ἐκνηθέσθην | ἐκνηθόμεθᾰ | ἐκνήθεσθε | ἐκνήθοντο | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Quotations
- New Testament, Second Epistle to Timothy 4:3:
- ἔσται γὰρ καιρὸς ὅτε τῆς ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας οὐκ ἀνέξονται, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τὰς ἰδίας ἑαυτοῖς ἐπισωρεύσουσι διδασκάλους, κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν·
- éstai gàr kairòs hóte tês hugiainoúsēs didaskalías ouk anéxontai, allà katà tàs epithumías tàs idías heautoîs episōreúsousi didaskálous, knēthómenoi tḕn akoḗn;
- Translation by KJV
- For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
- ἔσται γὰρ καιρὸς ὅτε τῆς ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας οὐκ ἀνέξονται, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τὰς ἰδίας ἑαυτοῖς ἐπισωρεύσουσι διδασκάλους, κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν·
Derived terms
- κνηθιάω (knēthiáō)
Descendants
- Mariupol Greek: кны́зу (knýzu)
- →⇒ Translingual: Cnethodonta
Further reading
- κνήθω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κνήθω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κνήθω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “κνήθω”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- G2833 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible