διό

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Univerbation of δι’ ὅ (di’ hó); see δῐᾰ́ (dĭắ, “because of”) and ὅ (hó, “which”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.ó/ → /ðiˈo/ → /ðiˈo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.ó/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/

Conjunction

δῐό • (dĭó)

1. wherefore, on which account
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 358D
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 518A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 258E
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 203C
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
2. because
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Plants 2.4.5

See also

• δῐότῐ (dĭótĭ)

References

• “διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διό in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διό in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1352 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • therefore idem, page 865.
  • wherefore idem, page 975.