# εἰσέρχομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From εἰσ- (eis-, “into”) +‎ ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, “to go”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eː.sér.kʰo.mai̯/ → /iˈser.xo.mɛ/ → /iˈser.xo.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /eː.sér.kʰo.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /iˈser.kʰo.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /iˈser.xo.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /iˈser.xo.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /iˈser.xo.me/

### Verb

εἰσέρχομαι • (eisérkhomai)
* to go into, enter, invade
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.184
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.56
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.321
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.28
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.36
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.1.27
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.5.1
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.13
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.21
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 5.12
** (of the chorus or of actors) to come upon the stage, to enter
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 580B
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.9
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 700
** (as an Attic law term, of the accuser) to come into court
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 522B
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Neaera 1
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 278
*** (of the parties, with accusative) to enter upon the charge
**** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 105
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 2 27
*** (of the accused) to come before the court
**** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 29C
**** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 103
*** (of the cause) to be brought in
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Lacritus 49
** to enter on an office
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 146.25
*** 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, 41 39
** (figuratively)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.157
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.407
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.125
*** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 845
*** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1411
*** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 57
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 372
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 678
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 330D
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Lys. 218C
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.86
*** (impersonal, with infinitive)
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.42
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.46
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 835D
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.137
**** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1002

#### Inflection

In Attic the future is supplied by εἴσειμι (eíseimi).

### References

* “εἰσέρχομαι”, “εἴσειμι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
* “εἰσέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “εἰσέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “εἰσέρχομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* εἰσέρχομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* εἰσέρχομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* εἰσέρχομαι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* G1525 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible