καθότι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κατότι (katóti) — Ionic

Etymology

From κατά (katá) +‎ ὅ (hó) +‎ τι (ti).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tʰó.ti/ → /kaˈθo.ti/ → /kaˈθo.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰó.ti/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈtʰo.ti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/

Adverb

καθότι • (kathóti)

1. in what manner, so far as, inasmuch as
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.2
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.82
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.25.3

References

• “καθότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καθότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καθότι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2530 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καθότι (kathóti) with semantic loan from French en tant que.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
• Hyphenation: κα‧θό‧τι

Conjunction

καθότι • (kathóti)

1. since, inasmuch as (because)

   Synonyms: διότι (dióti), επειδή (epeidí), καθώς (kathós)