καθάπερ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κατάπερ (katáper) — Ionic

Etymology

From καθά (kathá, “just as”) and περ (per).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tʰá.per/ → /kaˈθa.per/ → /kaˈθa.per/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰá.per/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈtʰa.per/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθa.per/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθa.per/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈθa.per/

Adverb

καθάπερ • (katháper)

1. exactly as
   • 470 BCE – 385 BCE, Philolaus, Collected Works 14
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 164
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.182
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 8
   • 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 61
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus 16
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 37.54
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.170
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 22E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 59E
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 41
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 684C
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 240B.10
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.32.2
   • 234 CE – 305 CE, Porphyry, Against the Christians 31

References

• “καθάπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καθάπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2509 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • like idem, page 491.