Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αἴρω ‎(aírō) Attic, contracted
• ἀέρρω ‎(aérrhō) Aeolic

Verb

ἀείρω • ‎(aeírō) (Epic, Ionic, poetic)

1. (transitive) to lift up, raise, support
   • Homer, Iliad 17.724
   • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 116.7
   • Sophocles, Philoctetes 879
   • Plato, Timaeus 90.A
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1270
   • Aristophanes, The Frogs 1339
   • Euripides, The Trojan Women 342
   • Xenophon, On Horsemanship 10.15
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 496
   • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 795
   • Sophocles, Fragments 110
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.1.23
   • Antiphanes Comicus, Ποίησ. 1.15
   • Plato, Cratylus 425.D
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.5
   • Hippocrates, περὶ ἀέρων ὑδάτων τόπων 283
   • Aristophanes, The Acharnians 565
   1. (of armies, ships, transitive) to get the fleet under sail
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.52
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.12
      • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1255
2. (transitive) to bear, sustain
   • Aeschylus, The Persians 547
   • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 80
3. (transitive) to raise up, exalt
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 262
   • Aeschylus, The Persians 164
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 914
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.118
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.75
   • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 196
   • Euripides, Hecuba 68
   • Demosthenes, Second Olynthiac 8
   • Sophocles, Antigone 111
   1. (transitive) to raise by words, praise, extol
      • Euripides, Herakles' Children 322
      • Demosthenes, Against Midias 71
4. (transitive) to lift and take away, remove
   • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 880
   • Plato, The Republic 578.E
   • Euripides, Electra 942
   • Menander, Κεκρ. 2
   • Aristotle, Problems 19.36
   1. (transitive, with genitive) to take away from
      • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 846
   2. (Koine, transitive) to take off, kill
      • The Gospel of Matthew 24.39
      • Lucian 23.18
5. (middle voice, transitive) to take up for oneself, to win, gain
   • Homer, Iliad 5.3
   • Homer, Iliad 9.124
   • Homer, Iliad 9.303
   • Homer, Odyssey 22.253
   • Homer, Iliad 14.130
   • Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.87
   • Sophocles, Ajax 75
   1. (transitive) to take upon oneself, undergo
      • Homer, Iliad 20.247
      • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 167
      • Sophocles, Antigone 907
      • Euripides, Cyclops 473
      1. (transitive) to undertake, begin
         • Aeschylus, The Suppliants 341
         • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.60
         • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 136.44
         • Euripides, Herakles' Children 986
         • Aeschylus, The Persians 481
         • Euripides, Rhesus 54
         • Sophocles, Ajax 247
   2. (transitive) to raise up
      • Sophocles, O. C, 460
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 546
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1225
   3. (transitive) to take away
      • Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1201

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀορτή ‎(aortḗ)
• ἀρτηρία ‎(artēría)
• μετέωρος ‎(metéōros)

References

• ἀείρω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀείρω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀείρω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀείρω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀείρω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀείρω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀείρω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• meteor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1150