πώποτε

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πω ποτέ (pō poté)
• πώποτ’ (pṓpot’) — apocopic

Etymology

From πω (pō) +‎ ποτέ (poté).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̌ː.po.te/ → /ˈpo.po.te/ → /ˈpo.po.te/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɔ̌ː.po.te/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.po.te/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.po.te/

Adverb

πώποτε • (pṓpote)

1. (Epic, always with a negative) never yet
2. (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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ever idem, page 285.