# διαφέρω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From δια- (dia-, “through, between”) +‎ φέρω (phérō, “to bring, carry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.a.pʰé.rɔː/ → /ði.aˈɸe.ro/ → /ði.aˈfe.ro/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /di.a.pʰé.rɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /di.aˈpʰe.ro/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ði.aˈɸe.ro/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ði.aˈfe.ro/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ði.aˈfe.ro/

### Verb

διαφέρω • (diaphérō)
* to carry over or across, to carry from one to another
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.8
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 382
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 836B.6
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 323
** (of time) to go through, live, continue
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.40
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 10
*** c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 600
*** c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 982
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 56
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 511
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.24
** to bear through, bear to the end
*** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1195
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 15
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.2.5
** to bear to the end, go through with
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.25
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.11
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.54
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 321
*** 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 1143
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Internal Affections 40
* to carry different ways, to toss about
** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 570
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 9.8
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 715
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1087
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1261
** 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 242E
** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 3.2.5
** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 27:27
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Galba 26
** to spread
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.60
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Erotic Essay 46
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.163C
** to tear asunder
*** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 754
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1451A.34
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.133D
*** 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Collected Works 43.46
** to give
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.138
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 49
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.74
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 5.8
** (ἐράνους διαφέρω = διαλύσομα) to pay them up
*** 396 BCE – 323 BCE, Lycurgus of Athens, Collected Works 22
* (intransitive) to differ
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.54
** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 599
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 251
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.86
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 503
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 329D
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 147
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 1.2.7
** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Mithridatic Wars 1
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 486A.22
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 341B.24
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 505A.21
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 684B.3
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 15
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 167
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 20.17
** (impersonal) it makes a difference
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 5.22
*** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1248
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 89C
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467C
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 13
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 316B
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.42
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 187D
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 349A
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 497B
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.85
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Julius Caesar 65
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 15.420–428
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Of the Uses of the Different Parts of the Human Body 9.5
** (substantive) the difference, the odds
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 45D
*** 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 31
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.92
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 5
*** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Nicostratus 12
*** New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 2:18
*** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 19
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
** to be different from a man, generally in point of excess, to surpass
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 11.8
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.39
*** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 35B
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 1.10
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 181
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 517B
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.33
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.11.14
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 4.25
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 10.27.5
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 12
*** 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 2.53C
*** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 5.14.9
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.39.2
** to prevail
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.83
** to quarrel, struggle
*** 5th century BC, Telecleides, Hesiodoi 7
** to come between, intervene
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 94
** to belong to
*** 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.207
* (passive voice) to differ, be at variance, quarrel
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.173
** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 7B
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 42
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.31
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 17.4
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias 17
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.17
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.220
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus 46
** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 8
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Theomnestus 1 17

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “διαφέρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “διαφέρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* διαφέρω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* διαφέρω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* “διαφέρω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G1308 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek διαφέρω (diaphérō, “to differ”), from δια- (dia-) + φέρω (phérō).

### Verb

διαφέρω • (diaféro) (past διέφερα)
* to differ, be different, vary

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* ενδιαφέρω (endiaféro, “to interest”)

#### Related terms

* διαφορά f (diaforá, “difference, dispute”)
* διαφορετικός (diaforetikós, “different”)