περισωρεύω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περί (perí, “around”) +‎ σωρεύω (sōreúō, “heap upon”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.sɔː.rěu̯.ɔː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.soˈre.wo/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.soˈre.βo/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.soˈre.vo/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.soˈre.vo/

Verb

περῐσωρεύω • (perisōreúō)

to heap all around
- Aristotle, Fragments 208
(passive voice) to be heaped up with
- Plutarch, Life of Timoleon 29

Further reading

“περισωρεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
περισωρεύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
περισωρεύω in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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