# ἐξέρχομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἐξ (ex, “out”) + ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, “to go”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

ἐξέρχομαι • (exérkhomai) (deponent)
* to go out, come out (usually with genitive)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.140
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 663
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.75
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.12
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 37
** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 476
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 240
** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 512
*** (with accusative, rare)
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.29
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.104
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.14.3
*** (absolute) to go away, march off, march out, go forth, to withdraw
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.576
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.36
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 45
*** (with accusative) to go out on, to go through, go away to
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.17
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 50.34
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 505
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 687
** to stand forth and come to
*** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 640
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
*** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 226
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1084
** (with accusative)
* (of time) to come to an end, pass, expire
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.139
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 735
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.2
** (of public officers) to go out of office
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 10.37, (compare Aristotle, Politics 2.11.7)
* (of prophecies, dreams, events) to be accomplished, come true
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 216
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.107, (6.82)
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.137
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 795
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 88
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.1.5
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1011
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 10.46
** (of words) to proceed from
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 161B
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122E

#### Usage notes

ἐξέρχομαι is a suppletive verb that typically uses forms from other roots for all tenses and moods besides present indicative. For better understanding of the conjugation of ἐξέρχομαι and for further details, see ἔρχομαι (érkhomai), and εἶμι (eîmi), and ἦλθον (êlthon). Discussion of stems at ἔρχομαι Notes.

#### Inflection
### References

* “ἐξέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἐξέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἐξέρχομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἐξέρχομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἐξέρχομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G1831 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible