παρέρχομαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πᾰρᾰ- (para-, “by, near”) +‎ ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, “to come, go”).

Pronunciation

Verb

πᾰρέρχομαι • (parérkhomai)

1. to go by, beside, or past; to pass by, pass
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.357
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.429
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.62
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1004
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 188
   1. (of time) to pass
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 69
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 69
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1397
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 231B
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.3.2
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 310A
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.20
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 191
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 218A.9
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1457A.18
2. to pass by, outstrip, surpass
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.345
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.230
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.291
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 906
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 277
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 129
   • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 3
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 187
   1. to outwit, escape, elude
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.132
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 613
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.72
      • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 695
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 7
3. to pass on and come to a place, arrive at
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 216
   • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 24
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Cock 12
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 12.4
   1. to pass in
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.77
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.92
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 849
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1337
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1241
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 853
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1137
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 108
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.5.11
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 35
   2. (figuratively)
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1403B.23
4. to pass without heeding
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.239
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 231
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus 37
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 637
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 278E
   1. to overstep, transgress
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 12
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Andocides 52
5. to pass unnoticed, escape the notice of
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Theomnestus 2 2
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 226
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 110
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 902
6. (in Attic) to come forward to speak
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.45
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 95
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.81
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 443
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1612
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.59
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Apology 10
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Defence against a Charge of subverting the Democracy 14

Inflection

• The missing moods of the present and imperfect, as well as the future are borrowed from πάρειμι (páreimi).

Derived terms

• παρελθόν (parelthón, participle, neuter)
• παρελθών (parelthṓn, participle, masculine)

Descendants

• Greek: παρέρχομαι (parérchomai, “pass, go away”)

Further reading

• “παρέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “παρέρχομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “παρέρχομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• παρέρχομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• παρέρχομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3928 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾰρέρχομαι (parérkhomai). Morphologically, from παρα- (para-, “by, near”) +‎ έρχομαι (érchomai, “come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾeɾxome/
• Hyphenation: πα‧ρέρ‧χο‧μαι

Verb

παρέρχομαι • (parérchomai) deponent (past παρήλθα)

1. to go (pass) by, glide away
2. (of time) to elapse

   Οι γενιές έρχονται και παρέρχονται.

   Oi geniés érchontai kai parérchontai.

   Generations come and go.

3. (figuratively) to omit, suppress

   Synonyms: παραλείπω (paraleípo), προσπερνώ (prospernó)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• παρελθών (parelthón, “passed”, participle) (archaic) (fem.: παρελθούσα, neu.: παρελθόν)
  • παρελθόν n (“the past”)
  • see Derivatives
• αντιπαρέρχομαι (antiparérchomai, “ignore”)

• and see: έρχομαι (érchomai, “I come”)