# ἐκδύω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ἐκδύνω (ekdúnō)

### Etymology

From ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) +‎ δῠ́ω (dúō, “to get in”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡ.dý.ɔː/ → /eɡˈðy.o/ → /eɡˈði.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /eɡ.dý.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /eɡˈdy.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /eɡˈðy.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /eɡˈðy.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /eɡˈði.o/

### Verb

ἐκδῠ́ω • (ekdúō)
* to take off, remove, strip
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1269
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.5
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 204
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Conon 8
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.341
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Theomnestus 1 10
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.27.9
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.17
** Palatine Anthology 5.72
* (middle voice, active or passive in middle sense) to strip oneself (of a thing), take off oneself
** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 686
** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 336
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 549b25
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 600b15
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Conon 35
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.8
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.106
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.114
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.437
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.460
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 28
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.19
* (aorist ἐξέδῡν, perfect ἐκδέδῡκᾰ)
** (with genitive) to get out of, to emerge from
*** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 416
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 602
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.334
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 109d
** (with accusative) to escape; to shun
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leptines 1
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.99
*** 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.6.8
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 30
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 358

#### Antonyms

* ἐνδύω (endúō, “I put on”)

#### Derived terms

* ἀπεκδύομαι (apekdúomai)
* διεκδύομαι (diekdúomai)
* μετεκδύομαι (metekdúomai)
* παρεκδύομαι (parekdúomai)
* συνεκδύομαι (sunekdúomai)
* ὑπεκδύομαι (hupekdúomai)

#### Related terms

* ἀνέκδυτος (anékdutos)
* δυσέκδυτος (dusékdutos)
* ἐκδύσια (ekdúsia)
* ἔκδυσις (ékdusis)
* ἐκδυτήριον (ekdutḗrion)
* ἐκδύτης (ekdútēs)

#### Descendants

* Greek: γδύνω (gdýno)

### Further reading

* “ἐκδύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἐκδύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ἐκδύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* ἐκδύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἐκδύω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* G1562 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible