Ancient Greek

Verb

πρέπω • ‎(prépō)

1. to be clearly seen, to be visible or conspicuous among a number
   • Homer, Iliad 12.104
   • Homer, Odyssey 8.172
   1. to be heard
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 321
   2. to smell strong
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1311
2. to be conspicuously like, to be like, to resemble
   • Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.70
3. to be conspicuously fit, to become, beseem, suit
   • Pindar, Isthmian Ode 5(4).20
   1. (in participle)
      1. (neuter participle) that which is seemly, fitness, propriety, decorum
         • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   2. (rarely with a person as the subject) fit
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 9
   3. (mostly impersonal) it is fitting, it beseems, suits, becomes
      • Theognis of Megara, 235
      1. (with personal accusative and infinitive)
         • Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.83
      2. (with infinitive only)
         • Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.121
      3. when an accusative alone follows, an infinitive must be supplied
         • Herodotus, Histories 4.139
4. (transitive) to liken
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1328

Inflection

References

• πρέπω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρέπω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρέπω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πρέπω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «πρέπω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πρέπω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4241”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition