Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀνοίγνυμι ‎(anoígnumi)
• ἀναοίγω ‎(anaoígō) (Epic)

Verb

ἀνοίγω • ‎(anoígō)

1. to open
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.455
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 604
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 768
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 310.B
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.221
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.228
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.68
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.221
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 121.5
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 6.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 30
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 660
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 14.15
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios 477
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 56.5
   1. (figuratively) to lay open, unfold, disclose
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 321
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 515
      • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Unknown Work 128
   2. (nautical) to get into the open sea, get clear of land
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.2
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.5.13
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.6.21
2. (passive) to be open, stand open, lie open
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 174.D
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 59.D
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 405.A
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1523
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 2.1.3
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Crassus 4
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 923

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἄνοιξις ‎(ánoixis, “opening”)

Descendants

• Greek: ανοίγω ‎(anoígo)

References

• ἀνοίγω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνοίγω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀνοίγω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀνοίγω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀνοίγω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G455”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἀνοίγω» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften