Ancient Greek

Verb

ἀφορίζω • ‎(aphorízō)

1. I mark off boundary
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timotheus 61
   • 390 BCE – 322 BCE, Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus 16
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panegyricus 36
2. (middle voice) I mark off for myself
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 31
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 120
3. I border on
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 110.e
4. I determine, define
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1354.b.8
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 29
   • Epicr. 11.13
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 110.d
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 785.b
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 240.c
5. I separate, distinguish
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1331.a.27
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1354.a.3
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 36.42
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 173.e
   • 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 298.d
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 644.a
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 501.d
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 227.c
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 205.c
6. I finish
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Antidosis 58
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.71.10
7. I grant as a special gift
8. (with accusative of person) I set apart
   1. I banish
      • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 940
   2. I separate
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1292.b.4
      • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 19.9
      • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 231.e
      • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 24.a
   3. I cast out, excommunicate
      • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 6.22
   4. I appoint, ordain
      • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 13.2
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Galatians 1.15
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 1.1

Inflection

Derived terms

• προσᾰφορίζω ‎(prosaphorízō)
• σῠνᾰφορίζω ‎(sunaphorízō)

Related terms

• ἀφόρῐσῐς ‎(aphórisis)
• ἀφόρισμᾰ ‎(aphórisma)
• ἀφορισμός ‎(aphorismós)
• ἀφοριστέον ‎(aphoristéon)
• ἀφοριστῐκός ‎(aphoristikós)
• ἀφωρισμένως ‎(aphōrisménōs)

References

• ἀφορίζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀφορίζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀφορίζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀφορίζω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G873”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979