Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐνδῠ́νω ‎(endúnō)

Verb

ἐνδῠ́ω • ‎(endúō)

1. (middle voice) I go into
   1. (of clothes) I put on
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.42

        ἕζετο δ᾽ ὀρθωθείς, μαλακὸν δ᾽ ἔνδυνε χιτῶνα καλὸν νηγάτεον

        He sat upright, and put on his soft tunic, fair and glistering.

      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.98

        τὸ ἐνθεῦτεν φορμοῦ τρόπον καταπλέξαντες ὡς θώρηκα ἐνδύνουσι.

        They then weave them crosswise like a mat, and wear them like a breastplate.

   2. I enter
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.622

        οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἀκοντιστὺν ἐσδύσεαι

        nor shalt thou enter the contest

      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1020

        εἰς ἀλλοτρίας γαστέρας ἐνδὺς κωμῳδικὰ πολλὰ χέασθαι

        slipped within the belly of another and whispered to him many a comic hit

   3. I sink in
2. (active as causal) I clothe
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1021

     ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐξωμίδ᾽ ἐνδύσω σε

     but I will clothe you in the tunic

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.42

     κριὸν ἕνα κατακόψαντες καὶ ἀποδείραντες κατὰ τὠυτὸ ἐνδύουσι τὤγαλμα τοῦ Διός

     they cut in pieces and flay a single ram and put the fleece on the image of Zeus

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Synonyms

• ἕννυμι ‎(hénnumi)

References

• ἐνδύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐνδύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐνδύω» 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
• «ἐνδύω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1746”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979