ἀποκρίνω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἀποκρίνω
ἀποκρινῶ
Structure:
ἀπο
(Prefix)
+
κρίν
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to separate, set apart
- to distinguish
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- "καθάπερ οὖν ἀνὴρ φίλιπποσ οὐ πάντων ὁμοίωσ ἐπιμέλεται τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτὸ τὸ γένοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀεὶ τιν’ ἄριστον ἐξαιρῶν καὶ ἀποκρίνων καθ’ αὑτὸν ἀσκεῖ καὶ τρέφει καὶ ἀγαπᾷ διαφερόντωσ· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 242)
- ἐοίκεν, ἢ θατέρου θάτερον ἀποκρίνων καὶ ἀμφότερα χωρίζειν ἀλλήλων. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 50 6:1)
- ἀποκρίνων, μειγνὺσ δὲ ἀλλήλοισ σύμμετρα, πανσπερμίαν παντὶ θνητῷ γένει μηχανώμενοσ, τὸν μυελὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπηργάσατο, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα δὴ φυτεύων ἐν αὐτῷ κατέδει τὰ τῶν ψυχῶν γένη, σχημάτων τε ὅσα ἔμελλεν αὖ σχήσειν οἱᾶ́ τε καθ’ ἕκαστα εἴδη, τὸν μυελὸν αὐτὸν τοσαῦτα καὶ τοιαῦτα διῃρεῖτο σχήματα εὐθὺσ ἐν τῇ διανομῇ τῇ κατ’ ἀρχάσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 366:1)
- "ἄνδρεσ παιδὸσ τῆσ ἐμῆσ μνηστῆρεσ, ἐγὼ καὶ πάντασ ὑμέασ ἐπαινέω καὶ πᾶσι ὑμῖν, εἰ οἱο͂́ν τε εἰή, χαριζοίμην ἄν, μήτ’ ἕνα ὑμέων ἐξαίρετον ἀποκρίνων μήτε τοὺσ λοιποὺσ ἀποδοκιμάζων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 130 2:2)
- Ὅμηροσ δὲ σφᾶσ ἀνήγαγεν ἐπὶ τὸ σεμνότερον τοῦ γένουσ καὶ Θήβασ φησὶν οἰκίσαι πρώτουσ, ἀποκρίνων τὴν κάτω πόλιν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἀπὸ τῆσ Καδμείασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 7:2)
Synonyms
-
to separate
-
to distinguish
Derived
- ἀνακρίνω (to examine closely, to question, interrogate)
- διακρίνω (to separate one from another, to part, to be parted)
- ἐγκρίνω (to reckon in or among, to admit as elected, to admit)
- ἐκκρίνω (to choose or pick out, to single out, to single out for disgrace)
- ἐκπροκρίνω (to choose out)
- ἐπιδιακρίνω (to decide as umpire)
- ἐπικρίνω (to decide, determine)
- καθυποκρίνομαι (to subdue by histrionic arts, to pretend to be)
- κατακρίνω (to give as a sentence against, to condemn)
- κρίνω (I separate, part, I order)
- παρακρίνω (to draw up in line opposite, drawn up along)
- προκρίνω (to choose before others, choose by preference, prefer)
- συγκρίνω (to compound, to compare, to measure)