# ἀπόλλυμι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

ᾰ̓πο- (apo-, “away”) +‎ ὄλλῡμῐ (óllūmi, “to destroy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.pól.lyː.mi/ → /aˈpol.ly.mi/ → /aˈpo.li.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.pól.lyː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /aˈpol.ly.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aˈpol.ly.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /aˈpol.ly.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /aˈpo.li.mi/

### Verb

ᾰ̓πόλλῡμῐ • (apóllūmi)
* (active voice)
** to destroy utterly, kill, slay
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.758
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.268
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.648
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.49
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1454
*** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 946
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 70
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1360
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 892
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 470
*** 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Miners 1.20
*** 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Philotis 1.8
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 92.26
** to lose utterly
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.46, (compare Iliad 18.82)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.354
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.861
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.350
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 26
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.51
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.11, (compare 7.2.22)
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 154C
* (middle, passive, and perfect)
** to perish, die
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.117
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.166
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.303
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.87
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.126
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.27
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1077, (compare Plutarch, Moralia 2.185E)
*** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 355
*** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Collected Works 865
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 151
*** 4th century BC, Eubulus, Chrysilla 1
*** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Woman On Fire 1
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 123A, (compare Plutarch, Moralia 2.469E)
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 713, (compare 456)
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 865
*** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 2
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods
** to be lost, slip away, vanish
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.586
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.117
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.186

#### Inflection
### References

* “ἀπόλλυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀπόλλυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀπόλλυμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀπόλλυμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀπόλλυμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀπόλλυμι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* G622 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible