κατηγορέω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From κᾰτήγορος (katḗgoros) + -έω (-éō), or from κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak in assembly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tɛː.ɡo.ré.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.te̝.ɡoˈre.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.ti.ɣoˈre.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.ti.ɣoˈre.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.ti.ɣoˈre.o/
Verb
[edit]κᾰτηγορέω • (katēgoréō)
- to speak against, especially before judges, to accuse, to denounce publicly
- to state or bring as a charge against a person, accuse of it
- (with accusative of object) to allege in accusation
- (passive voice) to be accused
- (absolute) to be an accuser, appear as prosecutor
- to signify, indicate, prove
- (in logic) to predicate of a person or thing
- to affirm
Inflection
[edit] Present: κᾰτηγορέω, κᾰτηγορέομαι (Uncontracted)
Derived terms
[edit]- κατηγορία (katēgoría)
Further reading
[edit]- “κατηγορέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατηγορέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κατηγορέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2723 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible