# ἀποδίδωμι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἀπο- (apo-, “from”) +‎ δῐ́δωμῐ (dĭ́dōmĭ, “to give”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

ἀποδίδωμι • (apodídōmi)
* to give up or back, restore, return, to render what is due, pay
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.478
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.387
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Numbers 5.7
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.119
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.64
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.136
** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 270
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.70.5
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.2.10
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.13
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 85
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 24
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.40
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Archidamus 73
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.30
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.78
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1066
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.63
** to assign
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 456B
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.1.7
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 3.10.6
*** to refer to one, as belonging to his department
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 765B
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 6, (compare Lysias, Against the Corn Dealers 2)
** to return, render, yield
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.193
*** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Farmer 4
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.6.2
*** 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 489
** to concede, allow, to suffer or allow a person to do
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.144
*** 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Olynthiac 30
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 56
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 8.7.2
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 54
** (like ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeíknumi)) to render or make
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 46
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 2.1.23
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1.8
*** to exhibit, display
**** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 109
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 15.11
** to deliver over, give up
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 239
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 4.11
** to deliver
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.10
** to bring to a conclusion, wind it up
*** 396 BCE – 323 BCE, Lycurgus of Athens, Collected Works 149
** to render, give an account
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 48
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 137
** to render, give an account, to define, interpret
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.5
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Categories 5.9
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 6.16.6
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 1.2.14
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 1.1.16
** to attach or append, make dependent upon
*** 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Automata 266.17
*** 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Automata 249.1
** to affirm
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 5.1.3
* (intransitive) to increase
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.13
** to return, recur
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 1.18.2
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 7.6.6
** (in rhetoric and grammar)
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.11.13
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, de Dem. 9
*** to be construed with, refer to
**** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 538
* (middle voice) to give away of one's own will, to sell
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.70
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.56
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 830
** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1237
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 98B
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 96
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.89
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 47
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.48
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leptines 60
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.62

#### Related terms

* ἀπόδοσις (apódosis)
* δόσις (dósis)

### References

* “ἀποδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀποδίδωμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀποδίδωμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀποδίδωμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀποδίδωμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀποδίδωμι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “ἀποδίδωμι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G591 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* ἀποδίδωμι 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