περιστέλλω

περιστέλλω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περι- (peri-, “around”) +‎ στέλλω (stéllō, “I make ready, I prepare”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.ris.tél.lɔː/ → /pe.risˈtel.lo/ → /pe.risˈte.lo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.tél.lɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈtel.lo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈtel.lo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈtel.lo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.risˈte.lo/

Verb

περιστέλλω • (peristéllō)

1. I dress, I clothe, I wrap up
   1. 1. 1. I employ compression
         2. I cut down, I retrench; I am dispensed with
      2. I lay out a corpse, I bury
   2. I am contracted round
   3. I wrap, I cloak, I cover
      1. I conceal something from
   4. I protect, I defend
   5. I attend to, I cherish
   6. I withdraw from society

Descendants

• περισταλτικός (peristaltikós, “clasping and compressing”, adjective)
• ⇒ English: peristaltic (adjective)

References

“περιστέλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press