# ὀρέγω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to be straightening, stretching, setting upright”).
Cognates include Avestan 𐬭𐬁𐬱𐬙𐬀 (rāšta), Old Irish rigim, Latin regō, and Old English riht (English right).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.ré.ɡɔː/ → /oˈre.ɣo/ → /oˈre.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /o.ré.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /oˈre.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /oˈre.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /oˈre.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /oˈre.ɣo/

### Verb

ὀρέγω • (orégō)
* to reach, stretch, stretch out
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.371
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.743
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.527
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.257
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.366
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.240
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 36
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 846
** Anthology of Planudes 4.294
* to reach out, hold out, hand, give
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 433
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.33
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.328
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.453
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.102
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.312
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.58
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.110
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 117b
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1203
* (middle and passive)
** to stretch oneself out, stretch forth one's hand
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 456
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 178
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.307
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.851
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.26
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.20
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.834
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.99
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.506
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.53
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.44
** (with genitive) to reach at, reach out to; to aim at
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1238
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.466
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.322
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.805
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.392
*** Tyrt. 12.12
** (with genitive) to yearn for
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.12
*** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.878
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1113a.12
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 202
*** 490 BCE – 430 BCE, Empedocles, Collected Works 129.4
*** 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Fragments 187
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 240
*** 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 16
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 842
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 326a
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 439b
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 485d
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.42
** (with accusative) to take
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 353
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 303

#### Derived terms

* ἀνορέγω (anorégō)
* ἀντορέγω (antorégō)
* ἀπορέγω (aporégō)
* ἐπορέγω (eporégō)
* κακορέκτης (kakoréktēs)
* πᾰρορέγω (părorégō)
* προσορέγω (prosorégō)
* σῠνορέγομαι (sŭnorégomai)
* ὑπερορέγομαι (huperorégomai)

#### Related terms

* ἀνόρεκτος (anórektos)
* ὄργυιᾰ (órguiă)
* ὀρέγδην (orégdēn)
* ὀρεγιάω (oregiáō)
* ὄρεγμᾰ (óregmă)
* ὀρεγμίη (oregmíē)
* ὀρέγνῡμῐ (orégnūmĭ)
* ὀρεκτέος (orektéos)
* ὀρεκτέω (orektéō)
* ὀρεκτιάω (orektiáō)
* ὀρεκτῐκός (orektĭkós)
* ὀρεκτός (orektós)
* ὄρεξῐς (órexĭs)
* ὀρεχθέω (orekhthéō)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀρέγω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1099

### Further reading

* “ὀρέγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὀρέγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ὀρέγω 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
* ὀρέγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ὀρέγω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3713 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible