Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πνείω ‎(pneíō) Poetic

Verb

πνέω • ‎(pnéō)

1. I blow
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.361
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.469
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Charon or The Inspectors 3
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Mnesimachus, Collected Works 4.57
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 27.40
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 4.72
2. to breathe
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.80
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.446
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.75
   1. (with accusative) I breathe out
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 82
   2. breathe in, smell
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.51
      • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.120
      • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 6.164
      • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 184.3
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 565
      • 200 CE – 400 CE, Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios 505
3. (of perceptible breathing)
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 621
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.385
4. I breathe, live
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 42
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.447
   • Simm. 25.12
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1160
5. (figuratively, with cognate accusative) I breathe forth
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 219
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1309
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 34
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 951
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1121
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1016
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 862
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 288
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 319
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.536
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.8
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.508
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 146
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1146
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.5.12
   1. I speak
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 437
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 10.3
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 57
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 189
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 327
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 323
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 24
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.93
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.44
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.30

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• πνεῦμᾰ ‎(pneûma)
• πνεύμων ‎(pneúmōn)
• πνεῦσῐς ‎(pneûsis)
• πνευστιάω ‎(pneustiáō)
• πνευστῐκός ‎(pneustikós)
• πνοή ‎(pnoḗ)

Synonyms

• ψύχω ‎(psúkhō)

Descendants

• Greek: πνέω ‎(pnéo)

References

• πνέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πνέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πνέω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πνέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πνέω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πνέω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4154”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πνέω ‎(pnéō)

Verb

πνέω • ‎(pnéo) ‎(simple past έπνευσα)

1. blow

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• αναπνέω ‎(anapnéo, “to breathe”)
• εισπνέω ‎(eispnéo, “to inhale”)
• εκπνέω ‎(ekpnéo, “to exhale”)
• πνέω τα λοίσθια ‎(pnéo ta loísthia, “to breathe one's last”)

Related terms

• lung ‎(lung)