διό
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Univerbation of δι' ὅ (di' hó); see δῐᾰ́ (diá, “because of”) and ὅ (hó, “which”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.ó/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /diˈo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈo/
Conjunction
δῐό • (dió)
- wherefore, on which account
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 358D
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 518A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 258E
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 203C
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
- because
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Plants 2.4.5
See also
- δῐότῐ (dióti)
References
- “διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διό in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διό in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1352 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- therefore idem, page 865.
- wherefore idem, page 975.