ὅτε
See also: ΟΤΕ, Ο.Τ.Ε., and ὁτέ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὅτ’ (hót’) – apocopic
- ὅθ’ (hóth’) – apocopic, before a vowel with rough breathing
- ὅκα (hóka) – Doric
- ὄτα (óta) – Aeolic
Etymology
From ὅς (hós) and τε (te). Compare τότε (tóte), πότε (póte), ποτέ (poté).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.te/
Adverb
ὅτε • (hóte) (relative adverb)
- (of time) when
- (with indicative, to denote single events) when
- Homer, Iliad 1.397
- Homer, Iliad 5.392
- Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.35
- Homer, Odyssey 24.115
- Aristophanes, The Wasps 354
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
- Homer, Iliad 1.397
- Homer, Iliad 17.627
- (with present, of a thing now happening)
- Homer, Iliad 2.471
- Homer, Iliad 4.259
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.6
- (rarely with future)
- Homer, Odyssey 18.272
- (with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time)
- Homer, Iliad 1.610
- Homer, Iliad 3.216
- (of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a verb in optative or subjunctive)
- Homer, Iliad 3.55
- Homer, Iliad 21.429
- Aeschylus, The Eumenides 726
- (only in Epic and Lyric poets, with subjunctive)
- Homer, Iliad 19.337
- Homer, Iliad 21.323
- (in Homer, to introduce a simile)
- Homer, Iliad 2.147
- Homer, Iliad 4.130
- 6, 506
- Homer, Iliad 16.364
- Homer, Iliad 21.12
- Homer, Odyssey 10.462
- Homer, Iliad 2.394
- Homer, Iliad 4.462
- (with other particles)
- (with indicative, to denote single events) when
- (causal sense) whereas
- Homer, Iliad 16.433
- Homer, Iliad 20.29
- Sophocles, Ajax 1095
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King 918
- Plato, Symposium 206A
- Plato, Protagoras 354C
- Herodotus, Histories 5.92
- Sophocles, Philoctetes 428
- Aristophanes, The Clouds 34
- (absolute) sometimes, now and then
- Aristotle, Politics 2.2.16
- Homer, Iliad 20.49
- Homer, Iliad 18.599
- Homer, Iliad 11.64
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1270
- Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 2.106
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.10.5
- Aristotle, Politics 7.13.2
- Aristotle, Poetics 3.2
- Homer, Iliad 11.566
- Sophocles, Ajax 56
- Xenophon, Cynegeticus 5.8
Derived terms
- ὅταν (hótan)
- ὅτεπερ (hóteper)
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
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basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | ὁπότερος | ||||||
quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος | |
quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | |||
manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως | |
method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | ἄλλῃ | |
place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
exact time | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |||
duration of time | τέως | ἕως | |||||||
size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | ||||
multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | |||||||
order | πόστος | ποστός | ὁπόστος | ||||||
† Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. |
Further reading
- “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὅτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὅτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὅτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3753 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.
- as idem, page 42.
- reduce idem, page 684.
- when idem, page 975.