ἐπειδή

See also: επειδή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπεί (epeí, “after, since”) + δή (dḗ, “emphatic particle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.peː.dɛ̌ː/ → /e.piˈði/ → /e.piˈði/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.peː.dɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.piˈde̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/

Conjunction

ἐπειδή • (epeidḗ)

1. (strengthened form of ἐπεί (epeí)) after, since

Descendants

• Greek: επειδή (epeidí)

References

• “ἐπειδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐπειδή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐπειδή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ἐπειδή”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1894 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.
  • after idem, page 17.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • because idem, page 68.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • since idem, page 777.
  • when idem, page 975.