ἵνα
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe stem ἵ- (hí-) is probably from Proto-Indo-European *Hyós (“that, who, which”), while the ending is an instrumental ending found in Sanskrit येन (yena, “by which, by that”), Old High German hina (“thither”), Old Irish cen (“on this side”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hí.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)i.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
Conjunction
editῐ̔́νᾰ • (hína)
- Subordinating conjunction
- final, introducing a subordinate clause expressing a purpose: in order that, so that, so
- introducing a clause of effort, indicating what someone is trying to accomplish: that
- (usually poetic) where
Descendants
edit- Greek: να (na)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἵνα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592
Further reading
edit- “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἵνα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἵνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἵνα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἵνα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2443 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.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 2193, 2209, 2498