# ἀναιρέω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ana-, “up”) +‎ αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take, grasp”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.nai̯.ré.ɔː/ → /a.nɛˈre.o/ → /a.neˈre.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.nai̯.ré.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /a.nɛˈre.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /a.nɛˈre.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /a.neˈre.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /a.neˈre.o/

### Verb

ᾰ̓ναιρέω • (anairéō)
* (active voice)
** (transitive) to take up
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.453
*** (transitive) to take up and carry off, bear away
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.736
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.102
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.36
*** (transitive) to take up
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.61
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126
*** (transitive) to take up bodies for burial
**** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 386
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.4.9
**** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 1.3
** (transitive) to take away, make away with, destroy, kill
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.66
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 990
*** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 517
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 870D
*** 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 3.19
*** (of things, transitive) to abolish, annul, cancel
**** 638 BCE – 558 BCE, Solon, Collected Works 36.4
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 39
**** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Cleonymus 14
**** 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 35
**** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 36
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 2 5
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 29.4
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.1
*** (transitive) to destroy (an argument), answer or confute it completely
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 176B.36
**** 495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 25.14
** (transitive) to appoint, ordain
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.25
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 865D
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.6
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.1.6
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.13
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 914A
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 1.16
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 51
*** (intransitive) to answer, give a response
* (middle voice)
** (transitive) to take up for oneself, take up
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.449
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.32
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.296
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.84
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 602B.9
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.70
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.103
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.47
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.22
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.56
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1035
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.357
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.128
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.134
*** (transitive) to take up and carry off, snatch away
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.66
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 914B
*** (transitive) to take up dead bodies for burial
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.14
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.97
**** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1167
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.41
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1140
**** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1616
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.13
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.4
**** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 32B
**** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 614B
*** (transitive) to take up in one's arms
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.8
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 36
**** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 531
**** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 159
*** (transitive) to conceive in the womb
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.108
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.69
*** (transitive) to take up money at interest
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Polycles 17
** (transitive) to take upon oneself, undertake
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.108
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.36
*** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 492
*** 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 7
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 233C
*** 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 20
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 921D
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Nicostratus 21
*** (transitive) to accept as one's own
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.16
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.52
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.29
** (transitive) to take back to oneself, undo what one has done, cancel
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phormio 31
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 46

#### Inflection
### References

* “ἀναιρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀναιρέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀναιρέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀναιρέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀναιρέω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀναιρέω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* “ἀναιρέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G337 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible