μήποτε
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μή (mḗ, “not”) + ποτέ (poté, “ever, at some time”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.po.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.po.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.po.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.po.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.po.te/
Adverb
μήποτε • (mḗpote)
- never, on no account
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 205
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 882
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 182
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 977
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 617
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.133
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.275
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.455
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Girl from Samos 97
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 86
- (in prohibition or strong denial, with aorist subjunctive)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.81
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.441
- (Koine) perhaps
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1172A.33
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 24.5
- 700 BCE – 600 BCE, Aristeas, Collected Works 15
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.13
- 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.22.80
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.106D
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 18.4
Conjunction
μήποτε • (mḗpote)
- that at not time, lest ever
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.324
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.77
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.53
References
- “μήποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μήποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μήποτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήποτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μήποτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3379 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.
- never idem, page 556.