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.
- "ἐᾶν δοκεῖ τὴν ζήτησιν, ἢ τῷ λόγῳ καθάπερ παρόντοσ καὶ μὴ παρόντοσ ἀποκρινώμεθα τοῦ εἰπόντοσ; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 1 3:2)
- " ταῦτα οὖν λέγοντι τί ἀποκρινώμεθα, ὦ Ἱππία; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 56:6)
- ἀποκρινώμεθά τ’ αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι τὰσ μὲν πρότερον ὑπαρχούσασ ἡμῖν κτήσεισ, ὅσασ ἕκαστοι εἴχομεν, ὅτε τὴν φιλίαν συνετιθέμεθα, ἰδίασ τε καὶ ἀναφαιρέτουσ ἑκάστοισ δεῖ μένειν, ὅσων δ’ ἄν, ἀφ’ οὗ τὰσ συνθήκασ ἐποιησάμεθα, κοινῇ στρατεύσαντεσ ἐκ πολέμου κύριοι γενώμεθα, τούτων ὑπάρξει τὸ ἐπιβάλλον ἑκάστοισ λάχοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 74 3:2)
- ἡμῖν δὲ ὑπὸ μὲν ἡδονῆσ οὐκέτι ἔξεστιν εἰπεῖν ‐ ἄλλο γὰρ ὄνομα μετείληφεν ἀντὶ τῆσ ἡδονῆσ τὸ ἀγαθόν ‐ ἐκείνῳ δὴ ἀποκρινώμεθα καὶ λέγωμεν ὅτι Ἡττώμενοσ "ὑπὸ τίνοσ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 381:4)
- ἔτι δὴ καὶ τῇδε εἴπωμεν, καὶ ἀποκρινώμεθα πάλιν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖσιν. (Plato, Laws, book 10 64:2)
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)
