καίπερ
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kǎi̯.per/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.per/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcɛ.per/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.per/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.per/
Conjunction
καίπερ • (kaíper)
- although, albeit
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.224
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.70
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.577
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.125
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.135
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.555
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.4
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.6
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 199.2
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 907
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 712
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 377
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 495D
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1326
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.247
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.104
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1141
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 647
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.36
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219C
Usage notes
Sometimes has a word in between it, always in Homer.
References
- “καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καίπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “καίπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2539 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.
- although idem, page 26.
- however idem, page 408.
- though idem, page 868.