κατεναντίον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰτένᾰντᾰ (katénanta)
• κᾰτένᾰντῐ (katénanti)

Etymology

From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “against”) +‎ ἐνᾰντῐ́ος (enantíos, “opposite”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.te.nan.tí.on/ → /ka.te.nanˈti.on/ → /ka.te.nanˈdi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nan.tí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈdi.on/

Adverb

κᾰτενᾰντῐ́ον • (katenantíon)

1. over against, opposite
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.567
   • Palatine Anthology 9.132
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.215
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 73
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.360
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.144
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.285
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1116
   • 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 114

References

• “κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κατεναντίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κατεναντίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette