οἷον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hôi̯.on/ → /ˈy.on/ → /ˈi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hôi̯.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.on/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

οἷον • (hoîon)

1. inflection of οἷος (hoîos):
   1. accusative singular masculine
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of οἷος (hoîos, “such”).

Adverb

οἷον • (hoîon)

1. in poets and Ionic Prose also neuter plural, to add force, like ὡς (hōs) and ὥσπερ (hṓsper): how
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.32
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.601
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.633
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.287
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.419
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.587
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.57
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 6.7.2
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1363
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 923
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.786
   1. (in comparisons) as, like, just as
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.295
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1142
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 105
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.73
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.175
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.84
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219E
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467B
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 1.14
      • 350 BCE – 280 BCE, Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 94
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.563F
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 278A
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 396A
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 532A.6
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 753A.33
      • 161 CE – 180 CE, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.20
      • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.69
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 199B
      • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 39B.6
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 333A.11
      • 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum 3.16
      1. as, like for instance
         • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 218E
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 333A.11
         • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 207A
         • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.271
   2. like ὡς (hōs), ἅτε (háte), with a particle
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.5
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.95
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 203B

Derived terms

• οὐχ οἷον (oukh hoîon)
• μὴ οἷον (mḕ hoîon)