οὔτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οὐ (ou, “not”) +‎ τῐς (tis, “somebody”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǔː.tis/ → /ˈu.tis/ → /ˈu.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǔː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈu.tis/

Pronoun

οὔτις • (oútis) (οὔτῐς)

1. no one, nobody, none, nothing, no
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.88
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 396
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 188
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 445
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 414
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.487
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.552
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.224
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.279
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1099
   1. (neuter, adverbial) by no means, not at all
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.153
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.338
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.148
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.36
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 331A
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 351A
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 81D
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 186F
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 817
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.467
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1111
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.321
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.39

Inflection

Inflection

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	οὔτῐς	οὔτι		οὔτινε	οὔτινε		οὔτινες	οὔτινα
Genitive	οὔτινος	οὔτινος		οὐτίνοιν	οὐτίνοιν		οὐτίνων	οὐτίνων
Dative	οὔτινι	οὔτινι		οὐτίνοιν	οὐτίνοιν		οὔτισι(ν)	οὔτισι(ν)
Accusative	οὔτινα	οὔτι		οὔτινε	οὔτινε		οὔτινας	οὔτινα

Synonyms

• οὐδείς (oudeís)
• μηδείς (mēdeís)
• μήτις (mḗtis)

References

• “οὔτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὔτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὔτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὔτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “οὔτις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • nobody idem, page 559.
  • none idem, page 562.