Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /aspáz̚zome/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aspáz̚zome/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aspázome/

Verb

ἀσπάζομαι • ‎(aspázomai)

1. to welcome kindly, bid welcome, greet
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.35
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.37
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.122, (compare 3.1)
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.4
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 524
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 596
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1145
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1042
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 273.B
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 752
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 153.B
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 101, (compare Plato, The Republic 499.A)
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 76
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.39
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 587
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 376.A
   1. to take leave of
      • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1276
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.2
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 133.22
2. to kiss, embrace, caress
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 607
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Romulus 1
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.3.9
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1363
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 689.A
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 29.D
3. (of things) to follow eagerly, cleave to
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 192.A
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 475.A
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.7
4. to be glad that
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 324

Inflection

References

• ἀσπάζομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσπάζομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀσπάζομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀσπάζομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀσπάζομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀσπάζομαι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀσπάζομαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G782”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979