εἰκῇ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps for *ἐϝεκῇ (*ewekêi), from Proto-Indo-European *weḱ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.kɛ̂ːi̯/ → /iˈci/ → /iˈci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.kɛ̂ːi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈci/

Adverb

εἰκῇ • (eikêi)

1. without cause
2. without planning, heedlessly, rashly, haphazardly
3. without purpose, for no reason
4. vainly, to no avail
5. slightly, moderately

Descendants

• Aramaic:

• Classical Syriac: ܐܝܩܐ (ʾīqēʾ)

References

• “εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἰκῇ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• εἰκῇ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1500 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN