μήτε
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μήτ’ (mḗt’) – apocopic
Etymology
From μή (mḗ, “not”) + τε (te, “and”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.te/
Conjunction
μήτε • (mḗte)
- (mostly doubled, sometimes with μηδέ (mēdé)) and not, neither...nor
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 358
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 472
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.308
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.230
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.63
- 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 454
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 72
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 421
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 627E
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 496
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 978
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771
Further reading
- “μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μήτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μήτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μήτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3383 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.
- neither . . . nor idem, page 555.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μήτε (mḗte).
Conjunction
μήτε • (míte)
- neither … nor
- nor even, not even
See also
- είτε (eíte, “either”)
- ούτε (oúte, “neither”)