# ἀποκρίνω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἀπό (apó, “from, away from”) + κρίνω (krínō, “to separate, distinguish, judge”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.po.krǐː.nɔː/ → /a.poˈkri.no/ → /a.poˈkri.no/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.po.krǐː.nɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /a.poˈkri.no/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /a.poˈkri.no/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /a.poˈkri.no/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /a.poˈkri.no/

### Verb

ἀποκρῑ́νω • (apokrī́nō)
* to separate, set apart
** 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Deserters 1
** 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 12.8
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 302C
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.12
** 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 82
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.60
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.36
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.72
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 45
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.3.3
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 13
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49
** to distinguish
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.194
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 407C
* to choose
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.130, (compare Plato, Laws 946A)
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 640
* to reject on inquiry
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 751D
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 936A
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.12.2
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 966D
* (in middle voice) to answer, give answer, reply
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1272
** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1354
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1245
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.42
** 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 287A
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 964
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.61, (compare Plato, Crito 49A)
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 17
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.71
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 658C
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 453D, (compare Plato, Meno , 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus )
** to answer charges, defend oneself
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 632
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 143.30, (compare 119.32)
** to meet events, circumstances
*** 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.16.2
** (passive voice) to be given as an answer (+ dative of agent)
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 187B:κινδυνεύει δὲ ἡ ἀληθὴς δόξα ἐπιστήμη εἶναι, καί μοι τοῦτο ἀποκεκρίσθω.kinduneúei dè hē alēthḕs dóxa epistḗmē eînai, kaí moi toûto apokekrísthō.But I venture to assert that knowledge is true opinion, and let that be my answer.

#### Inflection
### References

* “ἀποκρίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀποκρίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀποκρίνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀποκρίνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀποκρίνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀποκρίνω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)