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ἀκούω

ἀκούω

See also: ακούω

Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓κούω (akoúō)

  1. (transitive) I hear [+accusative = something], [+genitive = someone]
  2. (transitive) I hear about, learn
  3. (transitive) I listen, pay attention to, heed
  4. (transitive) I understand
  5. (transitive) I obey
  6. (passive) I am called, am spoken of, am known as

Usage notes

Usually, the object which is heard takes the accusative case, while the speaker, when present, takes the genitive. Sometimes the object is in the genitive, or the person is introduced with a preposition.

Inflection

Attic uses the future middle ἀκούσομαι (akoúsomai), while future active ἀκούσω (akoúsō) appears in Koine.

Derived terms

  • ἀκοή (akoḗ)
  • ἀκοΐδιον (akoḯdion)

References

  • ἀκούω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἀκούω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ἀκούω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • «ἀκούω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ἀκούω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G191”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • BDAG
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill