πνέω

• πνείω (pneíō) — Poetic

From Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, sneeze”). Cognates include Old English fnēosan (English sneeze).^[1]

πνέω • (pnéō)

1. to blow
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.361
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.469
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Inspectors 3
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Mnesimachus, Collected Works 4.57
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 27:40
   • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 4.72
2. to breathe
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 3.80
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.446
   • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.75
   1. (with accusative) to breathe out
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 82
   2. breathe in, smell
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.51
      • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.120
      • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 6.164
      • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 184.3
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 565
      • 200 CE – 400 CE, Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios 505
3. (of perceptible breathing)
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 621
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.385
4. to breathe, live
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 42
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.447
   • Simm. 25.12
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1160
5. (figuratively, with cognate accusative) to breathe forth
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 219
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1309
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 34
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 951
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1121
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1016
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 862
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 288
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 319
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.536
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.8
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.508
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 146
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1146
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.5.12
   1. to speak
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 437
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Epigrams 10.3
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 57
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 189
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 327
      • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 323
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 24
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.93
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.44
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.30

• ψύχω (psúkhō)

• πνεῦμᾰ (pneûma)
• πνεύμων (pneúmōn)
• πνεῦσῐς (pneûsis)
• πνευστιάω (pneustiáō)
• πνευστῐκός (pneustikós)
• πνοή (pnoḗ)

• Greek: πνέω (pnéo)

• “πνέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πνέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πνέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πνέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πνέω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πνέω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4154 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpne.o/
• Hyphenation: πνέ‧ω

πνέω • (pnéo) (past έπνευσα, passive —)

1. to blow

• πνέω μένεα (pnéo ménea, “I am very angry -literlly: I breathe heavily from wrath-”)
• πνέω τα λοίσθια (pnéo ta loísthia, “to breathe one's last”)