FromProto-Hellenic*apó, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂epó(“off, away”).[1]
Cognates includeMycenaean Greek𐀀𐀢(a-pu),Sanskritअप(ápa,“away, off”),Latinab(“from”),Proto-Slavic*po, andProto-Germanic*ab (Englishof; see alsoafter),Albanianpa(“without”).
The genitive is from the PIE ablative of separation or cause.
- IPA(key): /a.pó/ →/aˈpo/ →/aˈpo/
ᾰ̓πό• (ăpó) (governs thegenitive)
- from, away from
- because of, as a result of
- in the name of
As is the case with most Greek prepositions,ἀπό(apó) is a versatile word which can take the idiom of a number of English words. To further complicate matters, inKoine Greek, the distinctions between various prepositions are often blurred, leading toἀπό(apó) fulfilling functions classically reserved for words such asἐκ(ek),ὑπό(hupó), andπαρά(pará).
- “ἀπό”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀπό”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀπό”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀπό inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001),A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀπό inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
- ἀπό in theDiccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “ἀπό”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G575 inStrong, James (1979),Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀπό inTrapp, 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
