According to Beekes, possibly from a disyllabic Proto-Indo-European root *h₂erh₁- (“to please, satisfy”), which appears to be related to *h₂reh₁- (“to think, reason, arrange”), apparently reanalyzed from *h₂réh₁(ye)ti, a stative-durative verbal form from the root *h₂er- (“to fit, fix, put together”). See also ᾰ̓ρετή (aretḗ, “excellence, virtue”), ἀραρίσκω (ararískō, “to join, fit”), ᾰ̓́ρῐστος (áristos, “best”).[1]
Older theories derived the word from αἴρω (aírō, “to lift, remove”) with inchoative suffix -σκω (-skō).
ᾰ̓ρέσκω • (aréskō)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἤρεσκον | ἤρεσκες | ἤρεσκε(ν) | ἠρέσκετον | ἠρεσκέτην | ἠρέσκομεν | ἠρέσκετε | ἤρεσκον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἠρεσκόμην | ἠρέσκου | ἠρέσκετο | ἠρέσκεσθον | ἠρεσκέσθην | ἠρεσκόμεθᾰ | ἠρέσκεσθε | ἠρέσκοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ᾰ̓ρήρεκᾰ | ᾰ̓ρήρεκᾰς | ᾰ̓ρήρεκε(ν) | ᾰ̓ρηρέκᾰτον | ᾰ̓ρηρέκᾰτον | ᾰ̓ρηρέκᾰμεν | ᾰ̓ρηρέκᾰτε | ᾰ̓ρηρέκᾱσῐ(ν) | ||||
subjunctive | ᾰ̓ρηρέκω | ᾰ̓ρηρέκῃς | ᾰ̓ρηρέκῃ | ᾰ̓ρηρέκητον | ᾰ̓ρηρέκητον | ᾰ̓ρηρέκωμεν | ᾰ̓ρηρέκητε | ᾰ̓ρηρέκωσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | ᾰ̓ρηρέκοιμῐ, ᾰ̓ρηρεκοίην |
ᾰ̓ρηρέκοις, ᾰ̓ρηρεκοίης |
ᾰ̓ρηρέκοι, ᾰ̓ρηρεκοίη |
ᾰ̓ρηρέκοιτον | ᾰ̓ρηρεκοίτην | ᾰ̓ρηρέκοιμεν | ᾰ̓ρηρέκοιτε | ᾰ̓ρηρέκοιεν | |||||
imperative | ᾰ̓ρήρεκε | ᾰ̓ρηρεκέτω | ᾰ̓ρηρέκετον | ᾰ̓ρηρεκέτων | ᾰ̓ρηρέκετε | ᾰ̓ρηρεκόντων | |||||||
active | |||||||||||||
infinitive | ᾰ̓ρηρεκέναι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | ᾰ̓ρηρεκώς | |||||||||||
f | ᾰ̓ρηρεκυῖᾰ | ||||||||||||
n | ᾰ̓ρηρεκός | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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