οὔτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From οὐ (ou, “not”) + τῐς (tis, “somebody”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǔː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈu.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈu.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈu.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈu.tis/
Pronoun
οὔτις • (oútis) (οὔτῐς)
- no one, nobody, none, nothing, no
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.88
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 396
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 188
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 445
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 414
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.487
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.552
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.224
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.279
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1099
- (neuter, adverbial) by no means, not at all
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.153
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.338
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.148
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.36
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 331A
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 351A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 81D
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 186F
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 817
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.467
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1111
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.321
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.39
Inflection
Inflection
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||
Nominative | οὔτῐς | οὔτι | οὔτινε | οὔτινε | οὔτινες | οὔτινα | ||||||
Genitive | οὔτινος | οὔτινος | οὐτίνοιν | οὐτίνοιν | οὐτίνων | οὐτίνων | ||||||
Dative | οὔτινι | οὔτινι | οὐτίνοιν | οὐτίνοιν | οὔτισι(ν) | οὔτισι(ν) | ||||||
Accusative | οὔτινα | οὔτι | οὔτινε | οὔτινε | οὔτινας | οὔτινα | ||||||
Synonyms
- οὐδείς (oudeís)
- μηδείς (mēdeís)
- μήτις (mḗtis)
References
- “οὔτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὔτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὔτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὔτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “οὔτις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- no idem, page 559.
- nobody idem, page 559.
- none idem, page 562.