Ancient Greek Etymology Related to ἀπό (apó). Cognate with Latin abs. Pronunciation IPA(key): /áps/ → /aps/ → /aps/ (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /áps/ (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aps/ (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aps/ (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aps/ (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aps/ Adverb ἄψ • (áps) back, back again again, in return Further reading “ἄψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon PressWikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.