# ἀπαγγέλλω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, “from”) +‎ ἀγγέλλω (angéllō, “to announce, report”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.paŋ.ɡél.lɔː/ → /a.paɲˈɟel.lo/ → /a.paɲˈɟe.lo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.paŋ.ɡél.lɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /a.paŋˈɡel.lo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /a.paɲˈɟel.lo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /a.paɲˈɟel.lo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /a.paɲˈɟe.lo/

### Verb

ᾰ̓παγγέλλω • (apangéllō)
* (of a messenger, transitive, ditransitive) to bring tidings, report, announce [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘to someone’]
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.626–627:ἀπαγγεῖλαι δὲ τάχιστα / χρὴ μῦθον Δαναοῖσιapangeîlai dè tákhista / khrḕ mûthon Danaoîsiit is best to quickly bring the story to the Danaans
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.25
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 266
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.22
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.4
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.25
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.4
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 71C
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.122
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 641
** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1241
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.127
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.5
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, For the Soldier 6
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.95
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 25
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121.5
** (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 autôi 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
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 72
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 84G
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 16
** (transitive) to recite, declaim
* (transitive) to explain, interpret
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 41.8
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judges 14.12

#### Derived terms

* ᾰ̓παγγελεύς (apangeleús)
* ᾰ̓παγγελῐ́ᾱ (apangelíā)
* ᾰ̓πάγγελσῐς (apángelsis)
* ᾰ̓παγγελτήρ (apangeltḗr)
* ᾰ̓παγγελτῐκός (apangeltikós)
* προᾰπαγγέλλω (proapangéllō)
* προσᾰπαγγέλλω (prosapangéllō)

#### References

* “ἀπαγγέλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀπαγγέλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀπαγγέλλω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀπαγγέλλω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀπαγγέλλω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀπαγγέλλω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* “ἀπαγγέλλω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G518 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible