# σείω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* σίω (síō) — poetic

### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tséihō, from Proto-Indo-European *twéys-e-ti, from *tweys-. Cognates include Sanskrit त्वेषति (tvéṣati), Avestan 𐬚𐬬𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬵 (θvayah, “fright, fear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sěː.ɔː/ → /ˈsi.o/ → /ˈsi.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /sěː.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈsi.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈsi.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈsi.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈsi.o/

### Verb

σείω • (seíō)
* (transitive) to shake
** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 385
** 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 22
** Anacr. 49
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 185
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 75
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1204
** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 151
** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1191
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.345
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.135
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.133
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.486
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 291
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 713
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.4
** (of earthquakes)
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 511
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1752
*** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1142
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.129
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.52
*** X, HG 4.7.4
** (figuratively) to disturb, agitate
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 12
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Prorrhetics 1.143
*** 230 CE – 238 CE, Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.1.11
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.272
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 163
** (Attic) to blackmail
*** Alciphron, Collected Works 3.70
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 43
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 840
*** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 639
*** 5th century BC, Telecleides 2
* (passive voice, intransitive) to shake
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.98
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.59
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.94
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 584
** to move to and fro
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1276
*** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1312
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 46
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.107
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 299
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 7.58
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.805
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.285
*** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Dizziness 8
* (middle voice) to shake
** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1367
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 13.13
** to shake oneself
*** 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 1
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.199

#### Derived terms

* ἀνᾰσείω (anăseíō)
* ἀποσείω (aposeíō)
* δῐᾰσείω (dĭăseíō)
* ἐκσείω (ekseíō)
* ἐνσείω (enseíō)
* ἐπῐσείω (epĭseíō)
* κᾰτᾰσείω (kătăseíō)
* πᾰρᾰσείω (părăseíō)
* περισείομαι (periseíomai)
* προσείω (proseíō)
* σεισάχθειᾰ (seisákhtheiă)
* σεισίφυλλος (seisíphullos)
* σεισίχθων (seisíkhthōn)
* σεισοκέφᾰλος (seisoképhălos)
* σεισόλοφος (seisólophos)
* σεισπῡγίς (seispūgís)
* σῠσσείω (sŭsseíō)
* ὑποσείω (huposeíō)

#### Related terms

* σεῖσῐς (seîsĭs)
* σεῖσμᾰ (seîsmă)
* σεισμός (seismós)
* σειστής (seistḗs)
* σειστός (seistós)
* σεῖστρον (seîstron)
* σεῖστρος (seîstros)
* σείσων (seísōn)

#### References

* “σείω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* σείω 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
* σείω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G4579 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek σείω.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsio/
* Hyphenation: σεί‧ω

### Verb

σείω • (seío) (past έσεισα, passive σείομαι/σειέμαι)
* to shake

#### Derived terms

* σεινάμενος (seinámenos)
** (in phrase): σεινάμενος κουνάμενος (seinámenos kounámenos)

#### Related terms

* αποσείω (aposeío, “to shake off, to get rid of”)
* ασεισμικός (aseismikós, “no seismic activity”, adjective)
* άσειστα (áseista, “unshakeably”, adverb)
* άσειστος (áseistos, “unshakeable”, adjective)
* επισείω (episeío, “to brandish, to threaten”)

#### Further reading

* σείω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language