# ἀττικίζω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Ἀττικός (Attikós) +‎ -ίζω (-ízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /at.ti.kíz.dɔː/ → /at.tiˈci.zo/ → /a.tiˈci.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /at.ti.kíz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /at.tiˈki.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /at.tiˈci.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /at.tiˈci.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /a.tiˈci.zo/

### Verb

ἀττικίζω • (attikízō)
* to side or ally with the Athenians
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.62.2:ἡμεῖς δὲ μηδίσαι μὲν αὐτοὺς οὔ φαμεν διότι οὐδ’ Ἀθηναίους, τῇ μέντοι αὐτῇ ἰδέᾳ ὕστερον ἰόντων Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἕλληνας μόνους αὖ Βοιωτῶν ἀττικίσαι.hēmeîs dè mēdísai mèn autoùs oú phamen dióti oud’ Athēnaíous, têi méntoi autêi idéāi hústeron ióntōn Athēnaíōn epì toùs Héllēnas mónous aû Boiōtôn attikísai.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.6.13:οὐ βουλομένων δὲ τῶν Μηθυμναίων προσχωρεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐμφρούρων ὄντων Ἀθηναίων, καὶ τῶν τὰ πράγματα ἐχόντων ἀττικιζόντων, προσβαλὼν αἱρεῖ τὴν πόλιν κατὰ κράτος.ou bouloménōn dè tôn Mēthumnaíōn proskhōreîn, all’ emphroúrōn óntōn Athēnaíōn, kaì tôn tà prágmata ekhóntōn attikizóntōn, prosbalṑn haireî tḕn pólin katà krátos.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to speak or write in Attic Greek, the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek

#### Derived terms

* Ἀττικισμός (Attikismós)
* ἐναττῐκίζω (enattĭkízō)
* ἐξαττῐκίζω (exattĭkízō)
* ὑπεραττῐκίζω (huperattĭkízō, “to imitate the Attic dialect to excess”)

#### Related terms

* ἀναττῐκός (anattĭkós, “alien to the Attic dialect”)
* ἀντιαττῐκιστής m (antiattĭkistḗs, “Anti-Atticist”)
* Ἀτθίς (Atthís)
* Ἀττῐικηρῶς - ἀττῐκηρῶς (attĭkērôs, “in Attic fashion”)
* Ἀττική (Attikḗ, “Attica”)
* Ἀττῐ́κισις - ἀττῐ́κισις f (attĭ́kisis, “Attic style, Atticism”)
* Ἀττῐκιστής - ἀττῐκιστής m (attĭkistḗs, “speaker of Attic; one who affects or collects Attic expressions”)
* Ἀττῐκιστί - ἀττῐκιστί (attĭkistí, “in the Attic dialect”)
* Ἀττῐκοπέρδιξ m (Attĭkopérdix, “Attic partridge, nickname of an actor”)
* Ἀττῐκός (Attĭkós)
* Ἀττῐκουργής - ἀττῐκουργής (attĭkourgḗs, “wrought in Attic fashion”)
* Ἀττῐκωνῐκός m (Attĭkōnĭkós, “comic alteration of Ἀττῐκός, after Λακωνικός”)
* Συραττῐκός (Surattĭkós, “Syro-Attic”)
* ὑπαττῐκός (hupattĭkós, “somewhat Attic”)
* ὑπεραττῐκός (huperattĭkós, “excessively Attic”)
* χρυσαττῐκός (khrusattĭkós, “golden Attic”)
* ψευδαττῐκός (pseudattĭkós, “false Attic”)

#### Descendants

* Greek: αττικίζω (attikízo)
* Greek: αττικίζων (attikízon)

### References

* “Ἀττικίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Ἀττικίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ἀττικίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀττικίζω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
* ἀττικίζω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011