πώποτε
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πω ποτέ (pō poté)
- πώποτ’ (pṓpot’) – apocopic
Etymology
From πω (pō) + ποτέ (poté).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pɔ̌ː.po.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
Adverb
πώποτε • (pṓpote)
- (Epic, always with a negative) never yet
- (later also without a negative) ever (at any time)
Further reading
- “πώποτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πώποτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πώποτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4455 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.
- ever idem, page 285.