κατεναντίον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κᾰτένᾰντᾰ (katénanta)
- κᾰτένᾰντῐ (katénanti)
Etymology
From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) + ἐνᾰντῐ́ος (enantíos, “opposite”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.te.nan.tí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.te.nanˈdi.on/
Adverb
κᾰτενᾰντῐ́ον • (katenantíon)
- over against, opposite
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.567
- Palatine Anthology 9.132
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.215
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 73
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.360
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.144
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.285
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1116
- 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 114
References
- “κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κατεναντίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κατεναντίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette