# προσφέρω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ποσφέρω (posphérō)
* ποτιφέρω (potiphérō) — Doric

### Etymology

προσ- (pros-, “toward”) +‎ φέρω (phérō, “to carry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pros.pʰé.rɔː/ → /prosˈɸe.ro/ → /prosˈfe.ro/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pros.pʰé.rɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /prosˈpʰe.ro/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /prosˈɸe.ro/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /prosˈfe.ro/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /prosˈfe.ro/

### Verb

προσφέρω • (prosphérō)
* to bring to or upon, apply to
* to lay upon
* to apply, exhibit, employ, use
* to add
* to present, offer, give
* to bring forward, quote, cite
* to contribute, bring in, yield
* to bring near, make similar
* (passive voice)
** to put in (of ships)
** to go against, attack, assault
** to rush on, make an onset, engage
** to go to or towards
** to deal with, behave oneself in a certain way towards
** to be put or imposed upon
* (middle voice) to consume (food or drink)

#### Derived terms

* ἀντιπροσφέρω (antiprosphérō)
* προσφερής (prospherḗs)
* προσφορά (prosphorá)
* προσφορέω (prosphoréō)
* προσφόρημα (prosphórēma)
* προσφορία (prosphoría)
* πρόσφορος (prósphoros)

#### Descendants

* → Greek: προσφέρω (prosféro) (learned)

### Further reading

* προσφέρω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* “προσφέρω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
* “προσφέρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “προσφέρω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G4374 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. add idem, page 10.adduce idem, page 11.advance idem, page 13.apply idem, page 36.attack idem, page 49.attitude idem, page 51.bear idem, page 66.bestow idem, page 76.bring idem, page 99.carry idem, page 115.charge idem, page 125.confer idem, page 158.display idem, page 236.employ idem, page 269.exhibit idem, page 291.fall idem, page 303.give idem, page 360.grant idem, page 369.instance idem, page 446.introduce idem, page 455.moot idem, page 540.offer idem, page 571.pay idem, page 600.produce idem, page 644.propose idem, page 653.put idem, page 660.return idem, page 708.show idem, page 770.tender idem, page 861.ventilate idem, page 947.yield idem, page 996.

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσφέρω (prosphérō). By surface analysis, προσ- (pros-, “toward”) +‎ φέρω (féro, “to carry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈsfe.ɾo/
* Hyphenation: προ‧σφέ‧ρω
* Old Hyphenation: προσ‧φέ‧ρω

### Verb

προσφέρω • (prosféro) (past προσέφερα/πρόσφερα, passive προσφέρομαι)
* to offer, propose
* to give, present

#### Related terms

* and see: φέρω (féro, “to bear, to carry”)
* αντιπροσφέρω (antiprosféro, “to counter-offer”)
* αντιπροσφορά f (antiprosforá, “counter-offer”)
* προσφορά f (prosforá, “offer”)
* πρόσφορο n (prósforo, “holy bread”)
* πρόσφορος (prósforos, “appropriate”, adjective)
* υπερπροσφορά f (yperprosforá, “super offer”)