ἀπαγγέλλω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, from) + ἀγγέλλω (angéllō, to announce, report).

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ᾰ̓παγγέλλω • (apangéllō)

  1. (of a messenger, transitive, ditransitive) to bring tidings, report, announce [+accusative = something], [+dative = to someone]
    1. (of a speaker or writer, transitive) to report, relate, narrate
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.210:
        [] εἰ δέ τις τοι ὄψις ἀπαγγέλλει παῖδα τὸν ἐμὸν νεώτερα βουλεύειν περὶ σέο, ἐγώ τοι παραδίδωμι χρᾶσθαι αὐτῷ τοῦτο ὅ τι σὺ βούλεαι.
        [] ei dé tis toi ópsis apangéllei paîda tòn emòn neṓtera bouleúein perì séo, egṓ toi paradídōmi khrâsthai autôi toûto hó ti sù boúleai.
        But if someone is telling you that my own younger son has been plotting against you, I give him over to you to treat him as you wish.
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.16.10
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 3.1
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 84G
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 16
    2. (transitive) to recite, declaim
  2. (transitive) to explain, interpret

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ᾰ̓παγγελεύς (apangeleús)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελῐ́ᾱ (apangelíā)
  • ᾰ̓πάγγελσῐς (apángelsis)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελτήρ (apangeltḗr)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελτῐκός (apangeltikós)
  • προᾰπαγγέλλω (proapangéllō)
  • προσᾰπαγγέλλω (prosapangéllō)

References

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