# προσέρχομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From προσ- (pros-, “to, toward”) +‎ ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, “to come, go”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

προσέρχομαι • (prosérkhomai)
* to come or go to
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 285
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1104
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.47
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.38
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 474
** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1539
** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 68
** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1205
** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 171
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1171
** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 589, (compare Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1076)
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 289D
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 327B
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493B
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.86
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 777
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 857
** (in a hostile sense)
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.16
** to surrender, capitulate
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.59
** to come forward to speak
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 85.17
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cato the Younger 12
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 257
*** 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 104.18
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 30
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.3
** to come in supplication
*** 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 56.9
** to be engaged in or with
*** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Collected Works 109
*** 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.95
** (of things) to be added
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 1.5.24
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 1.18.17
* to come in
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.144
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 185.8
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.6.12

#### Inflection

Attic imperfect and future: see πρόσειμι (próseimi).

#### Derived terms

* προσήλυτος (prosḗlutos)

#### Descendants

* Greek: προσέρχομαι (prosérchomai)

### References

* “προσέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “προσέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* προσέρχομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G4334 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* προσέρχομαι 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

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek προσέρχομαι. Morphologically, from προσ- (“toward”) +‎ έρχομαι (“come”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /proˈserxome/
* Hyphenation: προ‧σέρ‧χο‧μαι
* Old Hyphenation: προσ‧έρ‧χο‧μαι

### Verb

προσέρχομαι • (prosérchomai) deponent (past προσήλθα/προσήρθα)
* to arrive, show up (formal)
    Ο μάρτυρας δεν προσήλθε στο δικαστήριο.O mártyras den prosílthe sto dikastírio.The witness did not come to court.

#### Related terms

* έρχομαι (érchomai, “to come”)
* προσερχόμενος (proserchómenos, participle)

### References

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