ἕως
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hé.ɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)e.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.os/
Etymology 1
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.[1]
Noun
[edit]ἕως • (héōs) f (genitive ἕω); second declension
Declension
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂wot. Cognates include Sanskrit यावत् (yāvat, “until”).[2]
Alternative forms
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]ἕως • (héōs)
- (relative particle, used to express the point of time up to which an action goes)
- until, till
- (as a temporal conjunction)
- (with indicative) of a fact in past time
- (with subjunctive, relating to an uncertain event in the future)
- (with optative, relating to an uncertain event in the past)
- (with infinitive, only in late authors)
- (with indicative) of a fact in past time
- (with single words, mostly of adverbs of time)
- New Testament, First Epistle of John 2:9
- (with a preposition)
- Palatine Anthology 5.201
- (as a temporal conjunction)
- (mostly at the beginning of a verse in Homer) while, as long as
- (in Attic, with subjunctive)
- (with optative, in case of repeated action)
- until, till
Adverb
[edit]- for a time, like τέως (téōs)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕως 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 492-3
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕως 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 493
Further reading
[edit]- “ἕως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἕως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἕως”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἕως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἕως in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2193 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.
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