The corpus record

ἐκπυνθάνομαι

ekpunthanomai

search out, make inquiry

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant

ἐκπυνθάνομαι · ekpynthanomai — LSJ

search out, make inquiry

search out, make inquiry, Il. 10.320; ἔκ τε πυθέσθαι ἠέ.. ib. 308; ἵνʼ ἐκπυθώμεθα πόθεν.. E. Cyc. 94, etc.

2 hear of, learn, learn from, question

c. acc., hear of, learn, S. Aj. 215 (anap.); τινός learn from.., E. HF 529; τὸ πρᾶγμʼ ὅπως ἔχει Ar. Ec. 752; ἐ. τινός question him, Id. Pl. 60: c. part., ἐ. τινὰ ἀφιγμένον E. Hel. 817.

In the wild

κἀκπυθώμεθα · kakpythōmetha Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 43)
ἐκπύθοιτʼ · ekpythoitʼ Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 562)
ἐκπύθωμαι · ekpythōmai Euripides, Heracles 529
ἐκπυθέσθαι · ekpythesthai Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 462)
ἐκπεύσει · ekpeusei Sophocles, Ajax 215
ἐκπύθοιο · ekpythoio Sophocles, Ichneutae 251–253

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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