# παραγίγνομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* παραγίνομαι (paragínomai) — Ionic, Koine, Byzantine

### Etymology

From παρά (pará, “beside, near”) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to become”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ra.ɡí.ɡno.mai̯/ → /pa.raˈʝi.ɣno.mɛ/ → /pa.raˈʝi.ɣno.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.ra.ɡí.ɡno.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pa.raˈɡi.ɡno.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pa.raˈʝi.ɣno.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pa.raˈʝi.ɣno.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /pa.raˈʝi.ɣno.me/

### Verb

πᾰρᾰγῐ́γνομαι • (paragígnomai)
* to be beside, to be by or near
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.99.2
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.173
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 329B
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 17
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 153C
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 172C
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 52
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 337A
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 173B
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 3.5
** to come to one's side, come to aid, stand by, second, support
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 429
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 436
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.32
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 319
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.95
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.54
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 432
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.67
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 242
** (of things) to be at hand, to be gained, to accrue to one
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.15
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.2.2
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 34
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 99E
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1099B.16
*** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 1.122
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 71A.4
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 71A
* to come to, to arrive
** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 139
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.1.14
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.185
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.4
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.32
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 235
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.95
** to come to maturity
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.193
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.29

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “παραγίγνομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “παραγίγνομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “παραγίγνομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* παραγίγνομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* παραγίγνομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963