θνῄσκω (with ι [
Refs]; θνείσκ- [
Refs 5th c.BC+],
Aeolic dialect θναίσκω Hdn.Gr.[
Refs]
θνᾴσκω [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]:
future θᾰνοῦμαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
Epic dialect infinitive -έεσθαι[
Refs 8th c.BC+]
aorist 2 ἔθᾰνον,
Epic dialect θάνον [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
infinitive Epic dialect and
Ionic dialect θανέειν, as always in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:
perfect τέθνηκα [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
subjunctive τεθνήκω [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
pluperfect ἐτεθνήκειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
3rd.pers. plural -ήκεσαν[
Refs 5th c.BC+]: short forms of
perfect,
3rd.pers. dual τέθνᾰτον [
Refs 5th c.BC+],
1st pers. plural τέθνᾰμεν [
Refs 5th c.BC+],
3rd.pers. plural τεθνᾶσι [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
3rd.pers. plural pluperfect ἐτέθνᾰσαν [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
infinitive τεθνάναι [ᾰ] [
Refs 7th c.BC+] uncertain reading in [
Refs 6th c.BC+];
Epic dialect τεθνάμεναι, -άμεν, [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
Aeolic dialect τεθνάκην [
Refs 7th c.BC+];
participle τεθνεώς [
Refs 6th c.BC+];
genitive τεθνεῶτος, etc, [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
poetry τεθνεότος Archel. cited in [
Refs 3rd c.BC+];
Doric dialect τεθνᾰότα [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
Epic dialect τεθνηώς (variant{-ειώς}) [
Refs 8th c.BC+],
-ηυῖα [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
genitive τεθνηῶτος [
Refs 8th c.BC+] is
trisyllable [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:
disyllable forms are written in later Gr,
nominative τεθνώς [
Refs];
genitive singular τεθνῶτος [
Refs 1st c.AD+];
dative singular τεθνῶτι [
Refs];
feminine τεθνώσῃ (and
genitive plural τεθνήτων) [
Refs];
accusative plural feminine τεθνώσας [
Refs 2nd c.AD+] arose
future τεθνήξω [
Refs 5th c.BC+] (censured as archaic by [
Refs 2nd c.BC+];
participle τεθνηξόμενος [
Refs 4th c.AD+]—The simple Verb is regularly used in early Prose in
perfect and
pluperfect; for
present,
future, and
aorist the
compound ἀποθνῄσκω is substituted: θνῄσκει variant in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
aorist participle θανών,
subjunctive θάνῃ, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
aorist infinitive θανεῖν [
Refs]:—in
present and
imperfect,
die, as well of natural as of violent death; in
aorist and
perfect,
to be dead (compare τί τοὺς θανὅντας οὐκ ἐᾷς τεθνηκένα; [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ζωὸς ἠὲ θανών alive or
dead, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τεθνάτω
let him
be put to death, [
Refs]; ἄτιμος τεθ. Legal cited in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]: frequently in
participle, νέκυος πέρι τεθνηῶτος [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; νεκρὸν. τεθνηῶτα a
dead corpse, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ τεθνηκότες, οἱ θανόντες,
the dead, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἴχεται θανών (see. οἴχομαι); θανὼν φροῦδος (see. φροῦδος); θανόντι συνθανεῖν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ θανών, opposed to ὁ κτανών, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
present with
perfect sense, θνῄσκουσι γάρ, for τεθνήκασι, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) used like a
passive Verb, χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ Αἴαντος θανέειν
to fall by his hand, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρός τινος[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τεθνάναι τῷ δέει, τ. τῷ φόβῳ, with
accusative,
to be in mortal fear of, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; θ. ἐπί τινι
to die leaving one as heir, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II)
metaphorically, of things,
perish, θνᾴσκει σιγαθὲν καλὸν ἔργον [
Refs 5th c.BC+]