πλειστηρίζομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλειστήρης (pleistḗrēs, “manifold, all the whole length”) +‎ -ίζομαι (-ízomai).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pleːs.tɛː.ríz.do.mai̯/ → /plis.tiˈri.zo.mɛ/ → /plis.tiˈri.zo.me/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pleːs.tɛː.ríz.do.mai̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plis.te̝ˈri.zo.mɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.mɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.me/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.me/

Verb

πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι • (pleistērízomai) (deponent)

1. to name, accuse as the cause
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 1029–1031:

     καὶ φίλτρα τόλμης τῆσδε πλειστηρίζομαι
     τὸν πυθόμαντιν Λοξίαν, χρήσαντ’ ἐμοὶ
     πράξαντι μὲν ταῦτ’ ἐκτὸς αἰτίας κακῆς
     εἶναι

     kaì phíltra tólmēs têsde pleistērízomai
     tòn puthómantin Loxían, khrḗsant’ emoì
     práxanti mèn taût’ ektòs aitías kakês
     eînai

     • 1926 translation by Herbert Weir Smyth @perseus
       Scene: Orestes accuses Apollo (or Loxias) of the matricide he committed.

       And for the spells that gave me the courage for this deed I count Loxias, the prophet of Pytho, my chief source. It was he who declared that, if I did this thing, I would be acquitted of wrongdoing.

Inflection

Found only in the present:

   Present: πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
middle/ passive	indicative	πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι	πλειστηρῐ́ζῃ, πλειστηρῐ́ζει	πλειστηρῐ́ζεται	πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον	πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον	πλειστηρῐζόμεθᾰ	πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθε	πλειστηρῐ́ζονται
	subjunctive	πλειστηρῐ́ζωμαι	πλειστηρῐ́ζῃ	πλειστηρῐ́ζηται	πλειστηρῐ́ζησθον	πλειστηρῐ́ζησθον	πλειστηρῐζώμεθᾰ	πλειστηρῐ́ζησθε	πλειστηρῐ́ζωνται
	optative	πλειστηρῐζοίμην	πλειστηρῐ́ζοιο	πλειστηρῐ́ζοιτο	πλειστηρῐ́ζοισθον	πλειστηρῐζοίσθην	πλειστηρῐζοίμεθᾰ	πλειστηρῐ́ζοισθε	πλειστηρῐ́ζοιντο
	imperative		πλειστηρῐ́ζου	πλειστηρῐζέσθω	πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον	πλειστηρῐζέσθων		πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθε	πλειστηρῐζέσθων
						middle/passive
infinitive						πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθαι
participle	m					πλειστηρῐζόμενος
	f					πλειστηρῐζομένη
	n					πλειστηρῐζόμενον
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

Related terms

• πλειστηριᾰζω (pleistēriazō, “raise the price”) & compounds
• and see πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”)

Further reading

• “πλειστηρίζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλειστηρίζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers