# πρέπω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prep- (“to appear, be conspicuous”). Cognates include Old Armenian երեւիմ (erewim, “to become visible, appear”), Old Irish richt (“shape”), Welsh rhith (“species”), and perhaps Old High German furben (“to clean”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pré.pɔː/ → /ˈpre.po/ → /ˈpre.po/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pré.pɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpre.po/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpre.po/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpre.po/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpre.po/

### Verb

πρέπω • (prépō)
* to be clearly seen, to be visible or conspicuous among a number
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.104
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.172
** to be heard
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 321
** to smell strong
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1311
* to be conspicuously like, to be like, to resemble
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.70
* to be conspicuously fit, to become, beseem, suit
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 5(4).20
** (in participle)
*** (neuter participle) that which is seemly, fitness, propriety, decorum
**** 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 294A
** (rarely with a person as the subject) fit
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 9
** (mostly impersonal) it is fitting, it beseems, suits, becomes
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, 235
*** (with personal accusative and infinitive)
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.83
*** (with infinitive only)
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.121
*** when an accusative alone follows, an infinitive must be supplied
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.139
* (transitive) to liken
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1328

#### Derived terms

* θεοπρόπος (theoprópos)
* -πρέπεια f (-prépeia)
* -πρεπής (-prepḗs)
** ἀξιοπρεπής (axioprepḗs)
** εὐπρεπής (euprepḗs)
* -πρεπόντως (-prepóntōs, adverbs)
* -πρεπῶς (-prepôs, adverbs)
Compounds of the verb:
* δῐᾰπρέπω (diaprépō, “be prominent”)
* ἐκπρέπω (ekprépō, “be excellent”)
* ἐμπρέπω (emprépō, “be conspicuous in”)
* ἐνδῐᾰπρέπω (endiaprépō, “be distinguished in”)
* ἐπῐπρέπω (epiprépō, “be conspicuous”)
* εὐπρεπέω (euprepéō, “be acceptable”)
* εὐπρεπῐ́ζω (euprepízō, “be acceptable”)
* μετᾰπρέπω (metaprépō, “distinguish oneself”)
* σῠμπρέπω (sumprépō, “befit”)

#### Descendants

* Greek: πρέπει (prépei) (this term descends in the impersonal form and as compound verbs)
   * διαπρέπω (diaprépo, “to distinguish yourself”)
   * ευπρεπίζω (efprepízo, “to tidy up”)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πρέπω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1230-1

### Further reading

* “πρέπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πρέπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “πρέπω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* πρέπω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* πρέπω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “πρέπω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G4241 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible