Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νύναμαι ‎(núnamai) (Cretan)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðýname/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðýname/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðíname/

Verb

δύναμαι • ‎(dúnamai)

1. (with infinitive) to be able, capable, strong enough to do
   • Homer, Iliad 1.393
   • Homer, Iliad 20.360
   • Homer, Odyssey 4.237
   • Homer, Odyssey 1.276
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.9
   • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 950
   • Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1036
   • Euripides, Orestes 889
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.39
   • Herodotus, Histories 7.5
   • Andocides, Collected Works 32.31
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.105
   • Lysias, Collected Works 107.26
   1. (of moral possibility) to be able, to dare, to bear to do
      • Homer, Odyssey 1.250
      • Homer, Odyssey 13.331, (compare Sophocles, Antigone 455)
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.130
   2. (with ὡς ‎(hōs) and a superlative) as much as one can
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.50
      • Plato, The Republic 367.B
      • Plato, Symposium 214.C
      • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 3
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 2.6.2
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 2.2.9
2. to pass for
   1. (of money) to be worth
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.6
      • Lucian, On Funerals 10
   2. (of numbers) to be equivalent, to equal
      • Herodotus, Histories 2.142
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.40
   3. (of words) to signify, mean
      • Herodotus, Histories 4.110.1
      • Herodotus, Histories 6.86.3
      • Aristophanes, Fragments 553
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.58
      • Aristotle, Politics 5.11.6
      • Euripides, Medea 128
      • Aristophanes, Plutus 842
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.36
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.141
   4. (as a mathematical term) to be the root of a square number, to be the side of a square
      • Plato, Theaetetus 148.B
      • Plato, The Republic 546.B
3. (impersonal) it is possible, it can be
   • Herodotus, Histories 7.134
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.45

Inflection

Derived terms

• δύναμις ‎(dúnamis, “ability, power, display of power”)

References

• δύναμαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δύναμαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δύναμαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δύναμαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δύναμαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δύναμαι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δύναμαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1410”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979