οἷον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hôi̯.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.on/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

οἷον • (hoîon)

inflection of οἷος (hoîos):
1. accusative singular masculine
2. nominative/accusative/vocative singular neuter

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of οἷος (hoîos, “such”).

Adverb

οἷον • (hoîon)

in poets and Ionic Prose also neuter plural, to add force, like ὡς (hōs) and ὥσπερ (hṓsper): how
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.32
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.601
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.633
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.287
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.419
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.587
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.57
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 6.7.2
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1363
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 923
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.786
1. (in comparisons) as, like, just as
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.295
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1142
  - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 105
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.73
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.175
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.84
  - 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219E
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467B
  - 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 1.14
  - 350 BCE – 280 BCE, Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 94
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.563F
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 278A
  - 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 396A
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 532A.6
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 753A.33
  - 161 CE – 180 CE, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.20
  - 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.69
  - 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 199B
  - 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 39B.6
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 333A.11
  - 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum 3.16
  1. as, like for instance
    - 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 218E
    - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption 333A.11
    - 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 207A
    - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.271
2. like ὡς (hōs), ἅτε (háte), with a particle
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.5
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.95
  - 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 203B

Derived terms

οὐχ οἷον (oukh hoîon)
μὴ οἷον (mḕ hoîon)