γίγνομαι
gignomai
come into a new state of being
Appears 5,952 times across Aristotle's works.
in Aristotle 5,952× · before him 3,566 · contemporaries 12,340
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History of Animals 798 ▸
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Chapter 3 489a8–19Chapter 4 489a20–33Chapter 6 490b7–491a26Chapter 7 491a27–491b8Chapter 10 491b34–492a12Chapter 16 494b19–496a3Chapter 17 496a4–497b2Book II 13 ▸
Book III 81 ▸
Chapter 3 512b12–514a22Chapter 6 515b27–516a7Chapter 8 516b31–517a5Chapter 11 517b21–518b34Book IV 26 ▸
Chapter 7 531b20–532b28Chapter 8 532b29–535a26Chapter 11 537b22–538b24Book V 203 ▸
Chapter 11 543b6–31Chapter 13 544a25–544b11Chapter 14 544b12–546b14Chapter 15 546b15–548a21Chapter 19 550b22–552b25Chapter 22 553b7–554b21Chapter 23 554b22–555a12Chapter 24 555a13–18Chapter 25 555a19–21Chapter 26 555a22–26Chapter 31 556b21–557a32Book VI 171 ▸
Chapter 2 559a15–561a3Chapter 3 561a4–562b2Chapter 5 563a5–16Chapter 8 564a7–24Chapter 9 564a25–564b13Chapter 15 569a10–570a2Chapter 18 571b3–573b16Chapter 27 578a17–24Chapter 30 579a18–30Chapter 31 579a31–579b14Chapter 35 580a11–31Chapter 36 580b1–9Book VII 98 ▸
Chapter 1 581a9–582a33Chapter 4 583b29–585a28Book VIII 93 ▸
Chapter 4 594a4–24Chapter 7 595b4–21Chapter 18 601a23–601b8Chapter 23 604a13–21Chapter 27 605b6–21Chapter 28 605b22–607a8Book IX 75 ▸
Chapter 6 611b32–612b17Chapter 8 613b6–614a33Chapter 10 614b18–30Chapter 18 616b33–617a10Chapter 22 617a28–617b5Chapter 27 617b27–30Chapter 28 617b31–618a7Chapter 29 618a8–30Chapter 34 619b18–620a12Chapter 35 620a13–16Chapter 39 622b27–623b4Chapter 40 623b5–627b22Showing 779 of 798 (list capped).
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Generation of Animals 772 ▸
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Chapter 4 737b8–741a5Chapter 6 741b25–745b20Chapter 7 745b21–747a22Book III 137 ▸
Chapter 1 749a10–752a8Chapter 2 752a9–754a20Chapter 4 755a6–35Chapter 9 758a26–759a7Chapter 10 759a8–761a11Book IV 162 ▸
Chapter 1 763b20–766b26Chapter 3 767a36–769b29Chapter 4 769b30–773a29- 769b31
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Meteorology 515 ▸
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Physics 421 ▸
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Politics 388 ▸
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Metaphysics 366 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 325 ▸
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Chapter 1 1094a1–17Chapter 3 1094b11–1095a13Chapter 6 1096a11–1097a14Chapter 9 1099b9–1100a9Chapter 12 1101b10–1102a4Book II 41 ▸
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27Chapter 8 1108b11–1109a19Chapter 9 1109a20–1109b26Book III 30 ▸
Chapter 2 1111b4–1112a17Chapter 4 1113a15–1113b2Chapter 6 1115a6–1115b6Chapter 7 1115b7–1116a14Chapter 9 1117a29–1117b22Book IV 18 ▸
Book V 23 ▸
Chapter 1 1129a3–1130a13Chapter 2 1130a14–1131a9Chapter 7 1134b18–1135a14Chapter 11 1138a4–1138b14Book VI 16 ▸
Book VII 16 ▸
Book VIII 58 ▸
Book IX 54 ▸
Chapter 1 1163b32–1164b21Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35Chapter 6 1167a22–1167b16Book X 43 ▸
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Prior Analytics 213 ▸
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Chapter 8 29b29–30a14Chapter 9 30a15–30b6Chapter 15 33b25–35b22Chapter 20 39a4–39b6Chapter 21 39b7–40a3Chapter 26 42b27–43a19Chapter 41 49b14–50a4Chapter 44 50a16–50b4Book II 79 ▸
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Rhetoric 211 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 186 ▸
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Chapter 2 315a26–317a31Chapter 3 317a32–319b5Chapter 5 320a8–322a33Book II 77 ▸
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On the Heavens 179 ▸
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Chapter 1 268a1–268b10Chapter 9 277b27–279b3Chapter 10 279b4–280a34Book II 46 ▸
Chapter 4 286b10–287b21Chapter 10 291a29–291b10Chapter 11 291b11–23Chapter 12 291b24–293a14Book III 48 ▸
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Parts of Animals 156 ▸
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Posterior Analytics 150 ▸
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Chapter 1 71a1–71b8Chapter 5 74a4–74b4Chapter 8 75b21–36Chapter 10 76a31–77a4Chapter 19 81b10–82a20Chapter 26 87a1–30Chapter 29 87b5–18Chapter 30 87b19–27Book II 105 ▸
Chapter 4 91a12–91b11Chapter 6 92a6–33Chapter 12 95a10–96a19- 95a10
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Topics 134 ▸
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On Colours 96 ▸
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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 95 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 84 ▸
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Poetics 72 ▸
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De Anima 68 ▸
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Book II 35 ▸
Chapter 3 414a29–415a13Chapter 4 415a14–416b31Chapter 10 422a8–422b16Chapter 12 424a17–424b18Book III 25 ▸
Chapter 1 424b22–425b11Chapter 2 425b12–427a16Chapter 5 430a10–25Chapter 6 430a26–430b30Chapter 7 431a1–431b19Chapter 9 432a15–433a8Chapter 11 433b31–434a21Chapter 12 434a22–435a10 -
Eudemian Ethics 68 ▸
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Chapter 4 1221b27–1222a5Chapter 5 1222a6–1222b14Book III 6 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 66 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 64 ▸
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De Audibilibus 61 ▸
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Categories 46 ▸
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Sense and Sensibilia 41 ▸
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De Interpretatione 38 ▸
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De Mundo 37 ▸
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On Sleep 36 ▸
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Movement of Animals 30 ▸
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Oeconomica 29 ▸
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Progression of Animals 28 ▸
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On Memory 25 ▸
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On Length and Shortness of Life 11 ▸
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