ὅτε
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ὅτ’ (hót’) — apocopic
- ὅθ’ (hóth’) — apocopic, before a vowel with rough breathing
- ὅκα (hóka) — Doric
- ὄτα (óta) — Aeolic
Etymology
[edit]From ὅς (hós) and τε (te). Compare τότε (tóte), πότε (póte), ποτέ (poté).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
Conjunction
[edit]ὅτε • (hóte) (relative adverb)
- (of time) when
- (with indicative, to denote single events) when
- (with present, of a thing now happening)
- (rarely with future)
- (with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time)
- (of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a verb in optative or subjunctive)
- (only in Epic and Lyric poets, with subjunctive)
- (in Homer, to introduce a simile)
- 6, 506
- (with other particles)
- (with indicative, to denote single events) when
- (causal sense) whereas
- (absolute) sometimes, now and then
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὅτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὅτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὅτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3753 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.