καίπερ

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǎi̯.per/ → /ˈcɛ.per/ → /ˈce.per/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǎi̯.per/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.per/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcɛ.per/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.per/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.per/

Conjunction

καίπερ • (kaíper)

1. although, albeit
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.224
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.70
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.577
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.125
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.135
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.555
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.4
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.6
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 199.2
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 907
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 712
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 377
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 495D
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1326
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.247
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.104
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1141
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 647
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.36
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219C

Usage notes

Sometimes has a word in between it, always in Homer.

References

• “καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καίπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “καίπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2539 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.
  • although idem, page 26.
  • however idem, page 408.
  • though idem, page 868.