[Isocrates] helped to lay the foundations for that invaluable vehicle of civilization, the Koinê Dialektos, through which, at the price of becoming easy, flat, common, and a little soulless, the Greek language in the Hellenistic period evangelized the whole Mediterranean world. [Gilbert Murray, "Greek Studies," 1946]
元音前的詞綴 ap-,意爲“來自,遠離; 分離,脫離,擺脫”,源自希臘語 apo,“從……來,離開; 之後; 血統上的後代”,在複合詞中表示“分離,脫離; 完成,結束; 再次回到”,在時間上表示“之後”,在起源上表示“來自,出自; 因爲”,源自 PIE 詞根 *apo-,“離開,遠離”(源頭還包括梵語 apa “遠離”,阿維斯陀語 apa “遠離”,拉丁語 ab “離開,從……來”,哥特語 af,古英語 of “離開”,現代英語 of, off)。