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κοιν-όω , fut.
A.“κοινώσω” A.Ch.673: aor. “ἐκοίνωσα” Th.8.48, Pl.Lg. 889d; Dor. “ἐκοίνα_σα” Pi.P.4.115:—Med., fut. “κοινώσομαι” Id.N.3.12 codd. (leg. -άσομαι (Dor.)), E.Med.499: aor. “ἐκοινωσάμην” A.Ag.1347, Is.11.50, etc.:—Pass., aor. “ἐκοινώθην” E.Andr.38, Pl.Ti.59b: pf. κεκοίνωμαι (in med. sense) E.Fr.493:—communicate, impart information, “κ. τινί τι” A.Ch.717 (in 673 an acc. must be supplied), E.Med. 685, Ar.Nu.197, Th.4.4, etc.; “μῦθον ἔς τινας” E.IA44 (anap.); “κ. τινὶ περί τινος” A.Supp.369; νυκτὶ κοινάσαντες ὁδόν having imparted their journey to night alone (i.e. travelling by night without consulting any one), Pi.P.l.c.
2. make common, share, “κοινώσαντας τὴν δύναμιν κοινὰ καὶ τὰ ἀποβαίνοντα ἔχειν” Th.1.39, cf. Pl.Lg.l.c.; v.l. for ἐκοινώνησε in Arist.Pol.1264a1:—in Med., “κοινάσομαι [ὕμνον] λύρᾳ” Pi.N.l.c.: aor. Med. in act. sense, Hp.Jusj.; κ. τὴν οὐσίαν τῇ τοῦ παιδός unite one to the other, Is.l.c.
3. make common, defile, “τὸν ἄνθρωπον” Ev.Matt.15.11; “γαστέρα μιαροφαγίᾳ” LXX 4 Ma.7.6:— Med., deem profane, Act.Ap.10.15.
II. Med., c. acc., undertake together, make common cause in, “βουλεύματα” A.Ag.1347; “κοινούμεθα . . ἐγώ τε καὶ Λάχης τὸν λόγον” Pl.La.196c; “τὸ πρᾶγμα” D.32.30; “κοινουμένη τὰς ξυμφοράς σοι” E.Ion608, cf. 858; “κοινοῦσθαι τὸν στόλον” Th. 8.8; “τὴν τύχην” X.Vect.4.32.
2. take counsel with, consult, esp. an oracle or god, X.An.6.2.15, v.l. in HG7.1.27: generally, “πρός τινας” Pl.Lg.930c; “περὶ πάντων ἑαυτοῖς” Plb.7.16.3; “τοῖς ἰατροῖς περί τινων” Gal.Consuet.5; “τοῖς φίλοις περὶ τὸ πρακτέον” Hdn.7.8.1; ὧν ἄν τις κοινώσαιτο δόξαις agree with, Arist.Metaph.993b12: abs., “οὔτ᾽ ἠθέλησας οὔτ᾽ ἐγὼ 'κοινωσάμην” S.Ant.539; simply, communicate, “τὰ κατ᾽ ἐμὲ τῇ βουλῇ” Alciphr.3.72; “μηδὲν τῇ γυναικὶ χρήσιμον” Men.Mon. 361.
3. c.gen., to be partner or partaker, τινος of a thing, E.Ph. 1709, Cyc.634, Lys.12.93, etc.; τινί τινος with one in . . , E.Andr. 933.
4. come to terms, μοι Pl.Smp.218e.
III. Pass., have communication with, “λέχει” E.Andr.38, cf. 217: metaph., “ἀλλήλοις” Pl.Lg.673d; ξανθῷ χρώματι -ωθέν, i.e. tinged with yellow, Id.Ti. 59b.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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