οὔτε
See also: ούτε
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom οὐ (ou, “not”) + τε (te, “and”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǔː.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈu.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈu.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈu.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈu.te/
Adverb
editοὔτε • (oúte)
- (rare) and not
- (mostly repeated) neither...nor
- (often used to distinguish a general negation by dividing it into subordinate clauses)
- (alternating clauses with οὐδέ (oudé))
- 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 537
- (may be followed by a positive clause with τε (te))
- (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
- (in poetry, οὐ (ou) sometimes follows without any conjunctive particle)
- (sometimes replaced by οὐ (ou) in poetry)
- 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 125
- (the former οὔτε is sometimes omitted)
- (corresponding with μήτε (mḗte))
References
edit“οὔτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὔτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὔτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὔτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὔτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οὔτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3777 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.