οὐδέ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- οὐδ’ (oud’) – apocopic
Etymology
From οὐ (ou, “not”) + δέ (dé, “but”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.dé/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈde/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈðe/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈðe/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈðe/
Conjunction
οὐδέ • (oudé)
- (mostly answering to μέν (mén)) but not
- Homer, Iliad 5.138
- Homer, Iliad 24.418
- Homer, Iliad 5.21
- Homer, Iliad 24.25
- (more often) and not, nor
- (without a negative preceding)
- Homer, Odyssey 10.375
- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 324
- Sophocles, Philoctetes 756
- Herodotus, Histories 1.97
- Homer, Iliad 1.95
- Aeschylus, Pr.716
- Sophocles, Philoctetes 2
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 39
- (with a simple negative preceding)
- Homer, Odyssey 10.379
- Homer, Odyssey 22.226
- Sophocles, Philoctetes 691
- Herodotus, Histories 1.215
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.55
- Demosthenes, Against Androtion 4
- (without a negative preceding)
Adverb
οὐδέ • (oudé)
- not even, not at all
- Homer, Iliad 2.386
- Homer, Iliad 1.354
- Homer, Iliad 20.27
- Homer, Iliad 14.141, (compare Odyssey 21.288)
- Aristophanes, Plutus 137–138
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.10
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.56
- Homer, Iliad 7.263
- Homer, Iliad 9.351
- Plato, Phaedo 97A
- Plato, The Republic 499A
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.50
- Homer, Iliad 9.374
- Homer, Odyssey 8.32
Usage notes
When οὐδέ (oudé) is repeated at the beginning of two clauses, the first is often adverbial and the second is a conjunction. It may also follow οὔτε (oúte), as an anacoluthon.
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲟⲩⲇⲉ (oude)
References
- “οὐδέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐδέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὐδέ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὐδέ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὐδέ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οὐδέ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3761 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.
- even idem, page 284.
- neither . . . nor idem, page 555.
- not idem, page 562.