# παραμένω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* παρμένω (parménō) — Poetic
* παραμίμνω (paramímnō) — Poetic

### Etymology

From παρά (pará, “beside”) + μένω (ménō, “I remain”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ra.mé.nɔː/ → /pa.raˈme.no/ → /pa.raˈme.no/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.ra.mé.nɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pa.raˈme.no/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pa.raˈme.no/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pa.raˈme.no/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /pa.raˈme.no/

### Verb

πᾰρᾰμένω • (paraménō)
* to stay near, stand beside
** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1108
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.402
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.400
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 39e
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 97d
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 3.4
* to stand one's ground, stand fast
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 440
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.82
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.14
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.151
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.48
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.89
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.40
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.10
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.15
* to stay behind
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 2
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 13
** 484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 1 64
* to survive
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.30
* (of things) to endure, last
** 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 9.13
** 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 942
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.57
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Areopagiticus 13
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Defence against a Charge of subverting the Democracy 28
** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 11.10.1
** 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Timocles, Collected Works 9.1
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.17

#### Derived terms

* ἐπιπᾰρᾰμένω (epiparaménō)
* προσπᾰρᾰμένω (prosparaménō)
* σῠμπᾰρᾰμένω (sumparaménō)

#### Related terms

* ἀπᾰράμονος (aparámonos)
* πᾰρᾰμονάριος (paramonários)
* πᾰρᾰμονή (paramonḗ)
* πᾰρᾰμόνιμος (paramónimos)
* πᾰράμονος (parámonos)

#### References

* “παραμένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “παραμένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “παραμένω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* παραμένω 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
* παραμένω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “παραμένω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3887 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* παραμένω in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.ɾaˈme.no/
* Hyphenation: πα‧ρα‧μέ‧νω

### Etymology 1

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek παραμένω (paraménō), from παρά (pará, “at”) + μένω (ménō, “stay”)

#### Verb

παραμένω • (paraméno) (past παρέμεινα, passive —)
* to remain, stay (at a location)
* to remain, stay (unchanged)

##### Related terms

* παραμονή f (paramoní, “sense: remaining”)

### Etymology 2

From Modern Greek πάρα (pára, “very much”) + μένω (méno, “stay”).

#### Verb

παραμένω • (paraméno) (past παραέμεινα, passive —)
* to stay, remain at a place for too long, more than expected