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ἀναιρέω

Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓ναιρέω • ‎(anairéō)

(active)
1. (transitive) to take up
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.453
  1. (transitive) to take up and carry off, bear away
    - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.736
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.102
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.36
  2. (transitive) to take up
    - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.61
    - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126
  3. (transitive) to take up bodies for burial
    - 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 386
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.4.9
    - 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 1.3
2. (transitive) to take away, make away with, destroy, kill
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.66
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 990
  - 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 517
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 870.D
  - 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 3.19
  1. (of things, transitive) to abolish, annul, cancel
    - 638 BCE – 558 BCE, Solon, Collected Works 36.4
    - 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 39
    - 4th century BC, Isaeus, Cleonymus 14
    - 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 35
    - 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 36
    - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 2 5
    - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 29.4
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.1
  2. (transitive) to destroy (an argument), answer or confute it completely
    - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 176.B.36
    - 495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 25.14
3. (transitive) to appoint, ordain
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.25
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 865.D
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.6
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.1.6
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.13
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 914.A
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 1.16
  - 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 51
  1. (intransitive) to answer, give a response
(middle voice)
1. (transitive) to take up for oneself, take up
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.449
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.32
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.296
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.84
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 602.B.9
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.70
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.103
  - 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.47
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.22
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.56
  - 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1035
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.357
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.128
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.134
  1. (transitive) to take up and carry off, snatch away
    - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.66
    - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 914.B
  2. (transitive) to take up dead bodies for burial
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.14
    - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.97
    - 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1167
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.41
    - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1140
    - 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1616
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.13
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.4
    - 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 32.B
    - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 614.B
  3. (transitive) to take up in one's arms
    - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.8
    - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 36
    - 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 531
    - 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 159
  4. (transitive) to conceive in the womb
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.108
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.69
  5. (transitive) to take up money at interest
    - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Polycles 17
2. (transitive) to take upon oneself, undertake
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.108
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.36
  - 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 492
  - 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 7
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 233.C
  - 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 20
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 921.D
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Nicostratus 21
  1. (transitive) to accept as one's own
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.16
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.52
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.29
3. (transitive) to take back to oneself, undo what one has done, cancel
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phormio 31
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 46

Inflection

Present: ἀναιρέω, ἀναιρέομαι (Uncontracted)

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἀναιρέω	ἀναιρέεις	ἀναιρέει	ἀναιρέετον	ἀναιρέετον	ἀναιρέομεν	ἀναιρέετε	ἀναιρέουσῐ(ν)
	subjunctive	ἀναιρέω	ἀναιρέῃς	ἀναιρέῃ	ἀναιρέητον	ἀναιρέητον	ἀναιρέωμεν	ἀναιρέητε	ἀναιρέωσῐ(ν)
	optative	ἀναιρέοιμῐ	ἀναιρέοις	ἀναιρέοι	ἀναιρέοιτον	ἀναιρεοίτην	ἀναιρέοιμεν	ἀναιρέοιτε	ἀναιρέοιεν
	imperative		ἀναίρεε	ἀναιρεέτω	ἀναιρέετον	ἀναιρεέτων		ἀναιρέετε	ἀναιρεόντων
middle/ passive	indicative	ἀναιρέομαι	ἀναιρέῃ, ἀναιρέει	ἀναιρέεται	ἀναιρέεσθον	ἀναιρέεσθον	ἀναιρεόμεθᾰ	ἀναιρέεσθε	ἀναιρέονται
	subjunctive	ἀναιρέωμαι	ἀναιρέῃ	ἀναιρέηται	ἀναιρέησθον	ἀναιρέησθον	ἀναιρεώμεθᾰ	ἀναιρέησθε	ἀναιρέωνται
	optative	ἀναιρεοίμην	ἀναιρέοιο	ἀναιρέοιτο	ἀναιρέοισθον	ἀναιρεοίσθην	ἀναιρεοίμεθᾰ	ἀναιρέοισθε	ἀναιρέοιντο
	imperative		ἀναιρέου	ἀναιρεέσθω	ἀναιρέεσθον	ἀναιρεέσθων		ἀναιρέεσθε	ἀναιρεέσθων
		active				middle/passive
infinitive		ἀναιρέειν				ἀναιρέεσθαι
participle	m	ἀναιρέων				ἀναιρεόμενος
	f	ἀναιρέουσᾰ				ἀναιρεομένη
	n	ἀναιρέον				ἀναιρεόμενον
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

Present: ἀναιρῶ, ἀναιροῦμαι (Contracted)

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἀναιρῶ	ἀναιρεῖς	ἀναιρεῖ	ἀναιρεῖτον	ἀναιρεῖτον	ἀναιροῦμεν	ἀναιρεῖτε	ἀναιροῦσῐ(ν)
	subjunctive	ἀναιρῶ	ἀναιρῇς	ἀναιρῇ	ἀναιρῆτον	ἀναιρῆτον	ἀναιρῶμεν	ἀναιρῆτε	ἀναιρῶσῐ(ν)
	optative	ἀναιροίην, ἀναιροῖμῐ	ἀναιροίης, ἀναιροῖς	ἀναιροίη, ἀναιροῖ	ἀναιροῖτον, ἀναιροίητον	ἀναιροίτην, ἀναιροιήτην	ἀναιροῖμεν, ἀναιροίημεν	ἀναιροῖτε, ἀναιροίητε	ἀναιροῖεν, ἀναιροίησᾰν
	imperative		ἀναίρει	ἀναιρείτω	ἀναιρεῖτον	ἀναιρείτων		ἀναιρεῖτε	ἀναιρούντων
middle/ passive	indicative	ἀναιροῦμαι	ἀναιρεῖ, ἀναιρῇ	ἀναιρεῖται	ἀναιρεῖσθον	ἀναιρεῖσθον	ἀναιρούμεθᾰ	ἀναιρεῖσθε	ἀναιροῦνται
	subjunctive	ἀναιρῶμαι	ἀναιρῇ	ἀναιρῆται	ἀναιρῆσθον	ἀναιρῆσθον	ἀναιρώμεθᾰ	ἀναιρῆσθε	ἀναιρῶνται
	optative	ἀναιροίμην	ἀναιροῖο	ἀναιροῖτο	ἀναιροῖσθον	ἀναιροίσθην	ἀναιροίμεθᾰ	ἀναιροῖσθε	ἀναιροῖντο
	imperative		ἀναιροῦ	ἀναιρείσθω	ἀναιρεῖσθον	ἀναιρείσθων		ἀναιρεῖσθε	ἀναιρείσθων
		active				middle/passive
infinitive		ἀναιρεῖν				ἀναιρεῖσθαι
participle	m	ἀναιρῶν				ἀναιρούμενος
	f	ἀναιροῦσᾰ				ἀναιρουμένη
	n	ἀναιροῦν				ἀναιρούμενον
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

References

ἀναιρέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀναιρέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀναιρέω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«ἀναιρέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«ἀναιρέω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀναιρέω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
“G337”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

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ἀναιρέω

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Ancient Greek

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