# ἀνταποδίδωμι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἀντῐ́ (antí, “in return for”) +‎ ᾰ̓ποδῐ́δωμι (apodídōmi, “to give back”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /an.ta.po.dí.dɔː.mi/ → /an.ta.poˈði.ðo.mi/ → /an.da.poˈði.ðo.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /an.ta.po.dí.dɔː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /an.ta.poˈdi.do.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /an.ta.poˈði.ðo.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /an.ta.poˈði.ðo.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /an.da.poˈði.ðo.mi/

### Verb

ἀντᾰποδῐ́δωμῐ • (antapodídōmi)
* (transitive) to give back, requite, repay, give
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.18.3:οὗτοι δὲ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνταποδιδόντες ἐτιμώρεονhoûtoi dè tò hómoion antapodidóntes etimṓreonthese lent their aid in return for a similar service done for them
** (figuratively, transitive)
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40.7:γενόμενοι δ’ ὅτι ἐγγύτατα τῇ γνώμῃ […] νῦν ἀνταπόδοτεgenómenoi d’ hóti engútata têi gnṓmēi […] nûn antapódotebut recall as nearly as possible the moment of suffering […] and now pay them back in their turn
* (transitive) to correspond to; to cause to correspond with
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 71e:οὐκ ἀνταποδώσομεν τὴν ἐναντίαν γένεσινouk antapodṓsomen tḕn enantían génesinShall we not assign as a balance the opposite process?
** to make convertible
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1407a.15:ἀεὶ δὲ δεῖ τὴν μεταφορὰν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ ἀνάλογον ἀνταποδιδόναιaeì dè deî tḕn metaphoràn tḕn ek toû análogon antapodidónaiThe proportional metaphor should always be reciprocally transferable
** (grammar)
*** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Conjunctions 254.19
*** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 54.5
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1047a.15:δεῖ δὲ ἕως μέμνηται ἀνταποδιδόναι ἀλλήλοιςdeî dè héōs mémnētai antapodidónai allḗloisFurther, they should be made to correspond whilst the hearer still recollects
** (intransitive) to correspond with
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 72a
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 347b.32
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Progression of Animals 707b.16
*** Ps.-Alex.Aphr., in SE 192.14
** (intransitive) to give back insults, esp. tu quoque
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 236c:ἵνα μὴ τὸ τῶν κωμῳδῶν φορτικὸν πρᾶγμα ἀναγκαζώμεθα ποιεῖν ἀνταποδιδόντες ἀλλήλοιςhína mḕ tò tôn kōmōidôn phortikòn prâgma anankazṓmetha poieîn antapodidóntes allḗloislest we be compelled to resort to the comic "you're another"
* (transitive) to give in turn
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.58:ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν ἧκε τὸ σύνθημα ἀνταποδιδόμενονepeì dè pálin hêke tò súnthēma antapodidómenonAnd when the watchword came back and was delivered again to him
* (transitive) to give back a sound
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 19.3:ὥστε τῆς κραυγῆς διχόθεν φερομένης καὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ἀνταποδιδόντων τὴν περιήχησινhṓste tês kraugês dikhóthen pheroménēs kaì tôn orôn antapodidóntōn tḕn periḗkhēsinso that when shouts were borne to his ears from both places, and reëchoed by the surrounding hills

#### Synonyms

* ἀντῐπῐφάσκω (antipipháskō)

#### Derived terms

* ᾰ̓ναντᾰπόδοσῐς (anantapódosis)
* ᾰ̓ναντᾰπόδοτος (anantapódotos)
* ἀντᾰπόδομᾰ (antapódoma)
* ἀντᾰπόδοσῐς (antapódosis)
* ἀντᾰποδοτέον (antapodotéon)
* ἀντᾰποδοτῐκός (antapodotikós)
* προσαντᾰποδῐ́δωμῐ (prosantapodídōmi)

#### References

* “ἀνταποδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀνταποδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ἀνταποδίδωμι 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
* ἀνταποδίδωμι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* G467 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible