# ἀνίστημι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) +‎ ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ, “to stand”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.nís.tɛː.mi/ → /aˈnis.ti.mi/ → /aˈnis.ti.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.nís.tɛː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /aˈnis.te̝.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aˈnis.ti.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /aˈnis.ti.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /aˈnis.ti.mi/

### Verb

ᾰ̓νῐ́στημῐ • (ănĭ́stēmĭ)
* active of the present, imperfect, future, and first aorist, and the perfect active ᾰ̓νέστᾰκᾰ (ănéstăkă)
** (transitive) to make to stand up, raise up
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.515, (compare Odyssey 14.319)
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 788
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 317E
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.11
*** (transitive) to raise from sleep, wake up
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.32
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.551
**** 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 740
**** 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Incert. 8
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 979
*** (transitive) to raise from the dead
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.551, (compare Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1361)
**** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 276
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 6.28
*** (after Homer, of things, transitive) to set up, build
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.102
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.12
**** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 25C
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.170E
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.165
**** (transitive) to build up again, restore
*** (transitive) to put up for sale
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.196
** (transitive) to rouse to action, stir up
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.176
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.64
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.116
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.68
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Coriolanus 21
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93
** (transitive) to make people rise, break up an assembly, to adjourn
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.191
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.42
*** (transitive) to make people emigrate, transplant
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.7
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.73
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.27
**** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1349
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Publicola 21
**** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 129
*** (transitive) to make suppliants rise and leave sanctuary
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.71
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137
**** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 29.11.10
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alcibiades 31
*** (transitive) to make to ascend
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.784
*** (of sportsmen, transitive) to put up game, to spring
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.3
* other tenses and voices
** (intransitive) to stand up, rise, to speak
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.68
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.101
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.77
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.380
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 885
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.76
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.533
*** (intransitive) to rise from bed
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.336
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.124
**** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 575
**** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 217
**** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 9.20
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.31
*** (intransitive) to rise from the dead
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.56
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.62
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 569
**** 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 1073
*** (intransitive) to rise from an illness, recover
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.22
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49
*** (intransitive) to rise as a champion
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.709
**** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1201
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.635
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.334
**** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 354
*** (intransitive) to rise up, rear itself
**** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 824
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.91A
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.276
**** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.23
*** (intransitive) to be set up
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.66
*** (of a river) to rise
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 34
** (intransitive) to rise to go, set out, go away
*** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 59
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 116A
*** (intransitive) to be compelled to migrate, to be removed
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, 1 12
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 9.22
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.29
**** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 494
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.12
**** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 84
*** (of a law court, intransitive) to rise
**** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 221
*** (of game, intransitive) to be put up
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.20

#### Derived terms

* ᾰ̓νᾰ́στᾰσῐς (ănắstăsĭs)
* ᾰ̓νᾰ́στᾰτος (ănắstătos)
* ᾰνῐ́στᾰμαι (ănĭ́stămai)
* ἀντᾰνῐ́στημῐ (antănĭ́stēmĭ)
* ᾰ̓πᾰνῐ́στημῐ (ăpănĭ́stēmĭ)
* δῐᾰνῐ́στημῐ (dĭănĭ́stēmĭ)
* ἐξᾰνῐ́στημῐ (exănĭ́stēmĭ)
* ἐπᾰνῐ́στημῐ (epănĭ́stēmĭ)
* μετᾰνῐ́στημῐ (metănĭ́stēmĭ)
* πᾰρᾰνῐ́στημῐ (părănĭ́stēmĭ)
* περιᾰνῐ́στημῐ (periănĭ́stēmĭ)
* προᾰνῐ́στημῐ (proănĭ́stēmĭ)
* προσᾰνῐ́στᾰμαι (prosănĭ́stămai)
* σῠνᾰνῐ́στημῐ (sŭnănĭ́stēmĭ)
* ῠ̔πᾰνῐ́στᾰμαι (hŭpănĭ́stămai)
* ῠ̔περᾰνῐ́στᾰμαι (hŭperănĭ́stămai)

#### Related terms

* ᾰ̓νᾰστᾰδόν (ănăstădón)

### Further reading

* “ἀνίστημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀνίστημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀνίστημι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀνίστημι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀνίστημι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀνίστημι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* G450 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible