μηδέποτε

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μηδέποκα (mēdépoka) — Doric

Etymology

From μηδέ (mēdé) +‎ ποτε (pote)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.dé.po.te/ → /miˈðe.po.te/ → /miˈðe.po.te/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.dé.po.te/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈde.po.te/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈðe.po.te/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈðe.po.te/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈðe.po.te/

Adverb

μηδέποτε • (mēdépote)

1. never

Quotations

• New Testament, Second Epistle to Timothy 3:7:

  πάντοτε μανθάνοντα, καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα.

  pántote manthánonta, kaì mēdépote eis epígnōsin alētheías eltheîn dunámena.

  • Translation by KJV

    Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Synonyms

• μήποτε (mḗpote)
• οὐδέποτε (oudépote)
• οὔποτε (oúpote)

Further reading

• μηδέποτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μηδέποτε”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μηδέποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3368 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.
  • never idem, page 556.