γείνομαι
geinomai
to be born
Appears 32 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
γείνομαι (γέν-yομαι, cf. γί-γν-ομαι): I. as Pass., only pres. and impf., to be born, cf. γίγνομαι (which is a constant v.l. in ), γεινομένῳ at oneʼs birth, Il. 20.128, 24.210, Od. 4.208, cf. Th. 82, Supp. 14: impf. γεινόμεθʼ Il. 22.477, Sc. 88. II. as Med., aor. 1 ἐγεινάμην (Aeol. 3sg. γέννατʼ Supp. 8.13), in causal sense, beget, ἐγείναο παῖδʼ ἀΐδηλον Il. 5.880, cf. Aj. 1172, etc.; more freq. of the mother, bring forth, θεὰ δέ σε γείνατο μήτηρ Il. 1.280, cf. 6.26, Od. 6.25, etc.; οἱ γεινάμενοι the parents, 1.120, Ap. 20; ὁ γεινάμενος the father, 2.171; ἡ γειναμένη the mother, 4.10, 6.52, Tr. 825 (lyr.); αἱ γ. women in childbed, HA 582b15; μήτηρ ἥ μʼ ἐγείνατο she who bare me, Eu. 736, cf. Fr. 175, Supp. 581 (lyr.), OT 1020; πατρὶς ἥ μʼ ἐγείνατο Ph. 996. 2. of Zeus, bring into life, οὐκ ἐλεαίρεις ἄνδρας, ἐπὴν δὴ γείνεαι αὐτός Od. 20.202. 3. metaph., ἐγείνατο μόρον αὑτῷ Th. 751 (lyr.). III. aor. 1, in later Poets, in pass. sense, = ἐγενόμην, Cer. 58. (Sts. written by itacism for γίνομαι, as IG 22.786.7 (iii B. C.).)
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