ἀπαγγέλλω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ᾰ̓παγγέλλω • (ăpangéllō)

  1. (of a messenger, transitive, ditransitive) to bring tidings, report, announce [with accusative ‘something’ and 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 autōî 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 of Kos, Τοῦ μεγάλου Ἱπποκράτους πάντων τῶν ἰατρῶν κορυφαίου τὰ εὑρισκόμενα. Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quæ extant. 84G
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 16
    2. (transitive) to recite, declaim
  2. (transitive) to explain, interpret

Inflection

Derived terms

  • ᾰ̓παγγελεύς (ăpangeleús)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελῐ́ᾱ (ăpangelĭ́ā)
  • ᾰ̓πάγγελσῐς (ăpángelsĭs)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελτήρ (ăpangeltḗr)
  • ᾰ̓παγγελτῐκός (ăpangeltĭkós)
  • προᾰπαγγέλλω (proăpangéllō)
  • προσᾰπαγγέλλω (prosăpangéllō)

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