οὔπω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὔκω (oúkō) — Ionic

Etymology

From οὐ (ou, “not”) +‎ πω (pō, “yet”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǔː.pɔː/ → /ˈu.po/ → /ˈu.po/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǔː.pɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.po/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.po/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.po/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈu.po/

Adverb

οὔπω • (oúpō)

1. not yet
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.799
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.335
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 521
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 10
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Men at Arbitration 98
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.262
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.192
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.110
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 179
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 106
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 513
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1370
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 27
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 590
2. not, not at all
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.143
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.270
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.118
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 594
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.306
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.358
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 105

Antonyms

• ἤδη (ḗdē, “already”)

See also

• μήπω (mḗpō)

References

• “οὔπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὔπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὔπω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὔπω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “οὔπω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3768 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.
  • not idem, page 562.
  • yet idem, page 996.