# παραλαμβάνω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* παλλαμβάνω (pallambánō) — Cretan

### Etymology

From πᾰρᾰ- (para-) +‎ λαμβᾰ́νω (lambánō, “to take, receive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.rá.lam.bá.nɔː/ → /paˈra.lamˈba.no/ → /paˈra.lamˈba.no/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.rá.lam.bá.nɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /paˈra.lamˈba.no/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /paˈra.lamˈba.no/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /paˈra.lamˈba.no/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /paˈra.lamˈba.no/

### Verb

πᾰρᾰ́λᾰμβᾰ́νω • (parálambánō)
* to receive from another
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.120
** Inscriptiones Graecae 4697.1
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.14.12
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 698E
** 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 107
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 43
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 32
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 108
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.105
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 102
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.51
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 814
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Theomnestus 1 5
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 157
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 330A
** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1611
** Inscriptiones Graecae 123.53
** Inscriptiones Graecae 145.146
** to take upon oneself, undertake
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 344
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.38
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.988E
** to take in pledge
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.136
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.211
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.19
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.16
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alcib. 26
*** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 6.4.1
** to receive by hearing or report, to ascertain
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.19
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.55
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.148
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.102
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.22.5
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.898B
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 197D
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 2.7.1
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 14.10
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.850E
** to take up, catch up
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.121
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 33.16.9
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.58.1
* (with personal accusative) to take to oneself, associate with oneself
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.155
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7.6
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.113
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.76
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121.4
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.111
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 369B
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 3.3.10
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 18B
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 460B
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 121E
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 67
** to invite
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.154
*** Alciphron, 3 46
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.40B
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Lycurgus 20
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.461D
** to wait for, intercept
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.203
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 5.2, (compare Anabasis 7.7.47)
** to take prisoner
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.69.2

#### Inflection
### References

* “παραλαμβάνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “παραλαμβάνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* παραλαμβάνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G3880 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Alternative forms

* παραλαβαίνω (paralavaíno) (colloquial, rare)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραλαμβάνω (paralambánō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ɾa.laɱˈva.no/
* Hyphenation: πα‧ρα‧λαμ‧βά‧νω

### Verb

παραλαμβάνω • (paralamváno) (past παρέλαβα, passive παραλαμβάνομαι, p‑past παραλήφθηκα)
* to receive, take delivery of
* to collect

#### Related terms

* παραλαβή f (paralaví, “receiving”)
* παραλήπτης m (paralíptis, “who receives”), παραλήπτρια f (paralíptria)
* and see: λαμβάνω (lamváno, “receive”)