Ancient Greek

Verb

ἀντᾰποδῐ́δωμῐ • ‎(antapodídōmi)

1. (transitive) I give back, requite, repay, give
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.18.3

     οὗτοι δὲ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνταποδιδόντες ἐτιμώρεον

     these lent their aid in return for a similar service done for them

   1. (figuratively, transitive)
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40.7

        γενόμενοι δ᾽ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τῇ γνώμῃ [...] νῦν ἀνταπόδοτε

        but recall as nearly as possible the moment of suffering [...] and now pay them back in their turn

2. (transitive) I correspond to; I cause to correspond with
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 71.e

     οὐκ ἀνταποδώσομεν τὴν ἐναντίαν γένεσιν

     Shall we not assign as a balance the opposite process?

   1. I make convertible
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1407.a.15

        ἀεὶ δὲ δεῖ τὴν μεταφορὰν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ ἀνάλογον ἀνταποδιδόναι

        The proportional metaphor should always be reciprocally transferable

   2. (grammar)
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 254.19
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 54.5
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1047.a.15

        δεῖ δὲ ἕως μέμνηται ἀνταποδιδόναι ἀλλήλοις

        Further, they should be made to correspond whilst the hearer still recollects

   3. (intransitive) I correspond with
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 72.a
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 347.b.32
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Progression of Animals 707.b.16
      • Ps.-Alex.Aphr., in SE 192.14
   4. (intransitive) I give back insults, esp. tu quoque
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 236.c

        ἵνα μὴ τὸ τῶν κωμῳδῶν φορτικὸν πρᾶγμα ἀναγκαζώμεθα ποιεῖν ἀνταποδιδόντες ἀλλήλοις

        lest we be compelled to resort to the comic "you're another"

3. (transitive) I give in turn
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.58

     ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν ἧκε τὸ σύνθημα ἀνταποδιδόμενον

     And when the watchword came back and was delivered again to him

4. (transitive) I give back a sound
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 19.3

     ὥστε τῆς κραυγῆς διχόθεν φερομένης καὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ἀνταποδιδόντων τὴν περιήχησιν

     so that when shouts were borne to his ears from both places, and reëchoed by the surrounding hills

Inflection

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓ναντᾰπόδοσῐς ‎(anantapódosis)
• ᾰ̓ναντᾰπόδοτος ‎(anantapódotos)
• ἀντᾰπόδομᾰ ‎(antapódoma)
• ἀντᾰπόδοσῐς ‎(antapódosis)
• ἀντᾰποδοτέον ‎(antapodotéon)
• ἀντᾰποδοτῐκός ‎(antapodotikós)
• προσαντᾰποδῐ́δωμῐ ‎(prosantapodídōmi)

Synonyms

• ἀντῐπῐφάσκω ‎(antipipháskō)

References

• ἀνταποδίδωμι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνταποδίδωμι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀνταποδίδωμι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀνταποδίδωμι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G467”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979