μήτε

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μήτ’ (mḗt’) — apocopic

Etymology

From μή (mḗ, “not”) +‎ τε (te, “and”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.te/ → /ˈmi.te/ → /ˈmi.te/

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

Conjunction

μήτε • (mḗte)

1. (mostly doubled, sometimes with μηδέ (mēdé)) and not, neither...nor
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 358
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 472
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.308
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.230
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.63
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 454
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 72
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 421
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 627E
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 496
   • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 978
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771

Further reading

• “μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μήτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μήτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μήτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μήτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3383 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.
  • neither . . . nor idem, page 555.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μήτε (mḗte).

Conjunction

μήτε • (míte)

1. neither … nor
2. nor even, not even

See also

• είτε (eíte, “either”)
• ούτε (oúte, “neither”)