Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓νῐ́στημῐ • ‎(anístēmi)

1. active of the present, imperfect, future, and first aorist, and the perfect active ᾰ̓νέστᾰκᾰ ‎(anéstaka)
   1. (transitive) to make to stand up, raise up
      • Homer, Iliad 24.515, (compare Odyssey 14.319)
      • Sophocles, Ajax 788
      • Plato, Protagoras 317.E
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.11
      1. (transitive) to raise from sleep, wake up
         • Homer, Iliad 10.32
         • Homer, Iliad 24.551
         • Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 740
         • Eupolis, Incert. 8
         • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 979
      2. (transitive) to raise from the dead
         • Homer, Iliad 24.551, (compare Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1361)
         • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 276
         • Aeschines, Collected Works 6.28
      3. (after Homer, of things, transitive) to set up, build
         • Herodotus, Histories 2.102
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.12
         • Plato, Timaeus 25.C
         • Plutarch, Moralia 2.170.E
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.165
         1. (transitive) to build up again, restore
      4. (transitive) to put up for sale
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.196
   2. (transitive) to rouse to action, stir up
      • Homer, Iliad 10.176
      • Homer, Iliad 15.64
      • Homer, Iliad 7.116
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.68
      • Plutarch, Coriolanus 21
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93
   3. (transitive) to make people rise, break up an assembly, to adjourn
      • Homer, Iliad 1.191
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.42
      1. (transitive) to make people emigrate, transplant
         • Homer, Odyssey 6.7
         • Herodotus, Histories 9.73
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.27
         • Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1349
         • Plutarch, Publicola 21
         • Demosthenes, On the Crown 129
      2. (transitive) to make suppliants rise and leave sanctuary
         • Herodotus, Histories 5.71
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137
         • Polybius, The Histories 29.11.10
         • Plutarch, Alcibiades 31
      3. (transitive) to make to ascend
         • Plutarch, Moralia 2.784
      4. (of sportsmen, transitive) to put up game, to spring
         • Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.3
2. other tenses and voices
   1. (intransitive) to stand up, rise, to speak
      • Homer, Iliad 1.68
      • Homer, Iliad 1.101
      • Homer, Iliad 19.77
      • Homer, Odyssey 20.380
      • Euripides, Orestes 885
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.76
      • Homer, Iliad 1.533
      1. (intransitive) to rise from bed
         • Homer, Iliad 14.336
         • Homer, Odyssey 20.124
         • Hesiod, Works and Days 575
         • Aristophanes, The Wasps 217
         • Andocides, Collected Works 9.20
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.31
      2. (intransitive) to rise from the dead
         • Homer, Iliad 21.56
         • Herodotus, 3 62
         • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 569
         • Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 1073
      3. (intransitive) to rise from an illness, recover
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.22
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49
      4. (intransitive) to rise as a champion
         • Homer, Iliad 23.709
         • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1201
         • Homer, Iliad 23.635
         • Homer, Odyssey 18.334
         • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 354
      5. (intransitive) to rise up, rear itself
         • Euripides, The Phoenician Women 824
         • Plutarch, Moralia 2.91.A
         • Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.276
         • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.23
      6. (intransitive) to be set up
         • Herodotus, Histories 3.66
      7. (of a river) to rise
         • Plutarch, Pompey 34
   2. (intransitive) to rise to go, set out, go away
      • Euripides, Herakles' Children 59
      • Plato, Phaedo 116.A
      1. (intransitive) to be compelled to migrate, to be removed
         • Thucydides, 1 12
         • Aeschines, Collected Works 9.22
         • Herodotus, Histories 5.29
         • Euripides, Hecuba 494
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.12
         • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 84
      2. (of a law court, intransitive) to rise
         • Demosthenes, Against Midias 221
      3. (of game, intransitive) to be put up
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.20

Inflection

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓νᾰ́στᾰσῐς ‎(anástasis)
• ᾰ̓νᾰ́στᾰτος ‎(anástatos)

Related terms

• ᾰ̓νᾰστᾰδόν ‎(anastadón)

References

• ἀνίστημι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνίστημι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνίστημι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀνίστημι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀνίστημι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀνίστημι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G450”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979