ὅτε

See also: ΟΤΕ, Ο.Τ.Ε., and ὁτέ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅτ’ (hót’) – apocopic
• ὅθ’ (hóth’) – apocopic, before a vowel with rough breathing
• ὅκα (hóka) – Doric
• ὄτα (óta) – Aeolic

Etymology

From ὅς (hós) and τε (te). Compare τότε (tóte), πότε (póte), ποτέ (poté).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.te/ → /ˈo.te/ → /ˈo.te/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.te/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.te/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.te/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.te/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.te/

Adverb

ὅτε • (hóte) (relative adverb)

1. (of time) when
   1. (with indicative, to denote single events) when
      • Homer, Iliad 1.397
      • Homer, Iliad 5.392
      • Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.35
      • Homer, Odyssey 24.115
      • Aristophanes, The Wasps 354
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
      • Homer, Iliad 1.397
      • Homer, Iliad 17.627
      1. (with present, of a thing now happening)
         • Homer, Iliad 2.471
         • Homer, Iliad 4.259
         • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.6
      2. (rarely with future)
         • Homer, Odyssey 18.272
   2. (with optative, to denote repeated events or actions in past time)
      • Homer, Iliad 1.610
      • Homer, Iliad 3.216
      1. (of future events which are represented as uncertain, in clauses dependent on a verb in optative or subjunctive)
         • Homer, Iliad 3.55
         • Homer, Iliad 21.429
         • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 726
      2. (only in Epic and Lyric poets, with subjunctive)
         • Homer, Iliad 19.337
         • Homer, Iliad 21.323
   3. (in Homer, to introduce a simile)
      • Homer, Iliad 2.147
      • Homer, Iliad 4.130
      • 6, 506
      • Homer, Iliad 16.364
      • Homer, Iliad 21.12
      • Homer, Odyssey 10.462
      • Homer, Iliad 2.394
      • Homer, Iliad 4.462
   4. (with other particles)
2. (causal sense) whereas
   • Homer, Iliad 16.433
   • Homer, Iliad 20.29
   • Sophocles, Ajax 1095
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 918
   • Plato, Symposium 206A
   • Plato, Protagoras 354C
   • Herodotus, Histories 5.92
   • Sophocles, Philoctetes 428
   • Aristophanes, The Clouds 34
3. (absolute) sometimes, now and then
   • Aristotle, Politics 2.2.16
   • Homer, Iliad 20.49
   • Homer, Iliad 18.599
   • Homer, Iliad 11.64
   • Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1270
   • Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 2.106
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.10.5
   • Aristotle, Politics 7.13.2
   • Aristotle, Poetics 3.2
   • Homer, Iliad 11.566
   • Sophocles, Ajax 56
   • Xenophon, Cynegeticus 5.8

Derived terms

• ὅταν (hótan)
• ὅτεπερ (hóteper)

 

See also

Ancient Greek correlatives ^(edit)

type	interrogative	indefinite	(medial) demonstrative	proximal demonstrative	distal demonstrative	relative	indefinite relative	identity	other
basic	τίς	τις, ἔνιοι	†ὁ, οὗτος	ὅδε	ἐκεῖνος	ὅς	ὅστις	ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός	ἕτερος, ἄλλος
dual	πότερος	πότερος, ποτερός				ὁπότερος
quality	ποῖος	ποιός	†τοῖος, τοιοῦτος	τοιόσδε		οἷος	ὁποῖος	ὅμοιος	ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος
quantity	πόσος	ποσός	†τόσος, τοσοῦτος	τοσόσδε		ὅσος	ὁπόσος
manner	πῶς	πως	†τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως	ὧδε		ὡς	ὅπως	ὁμῶς	ἑτέρως, ἄλλως
method, path, place	πῇ	πῃ	τῇ, ταύτῃ	τῇδε	ἐκείνῃ	ᾗ	ὅπῃ		ἄλλῃ
place	ποῦ, †πόθι	που, †ποθι	ἐνταῦθα		ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι	οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι	ὅπου, †ὁπόθι	αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ	ἄλλοθι
source	πόθεν	ποθεν	†τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν	ἐνθένδε	ἐκεῖθεν	ὅθεν	ὁπόθεν	†ὁμόθεν	ἄλλοθεν
destination	ποῖ, †πόσε	ποι	ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα	ἐνθάδε	ἐκεῖσε	οἷ	ὅποι, †ὁπόσε	αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε	ἄλλοσε
time	πότε, πῆμος	ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε	τότε, τῆμος	τημόσδε		ὅτε, ἦμος	ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος	ἅμα	ἄλλοτε
exact time	πηνίκα		†τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα	τηνικάδε		ἡνίκα	ὁπηνίκα	αὐτίκα
duration of time			τέως			ἕως
size, age	πηλίκος	πηλίκος	†τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος	τηλικόσδε		ἡλίκος	ὁπηλίκος	ὁμῆλιξ
repetition	ποσάκις, ποσίνδα	ποσάκις	τουτάκις, τοσάκις			†ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις	ὁποσάκις
multiplication	ποσαπλάσιος					ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων
order	πόστος	ποστός					ὁπόστος
† Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions.

Further reading

• “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὅτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὅτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὅτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3753 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.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • reduce idem, page 684.
  • when idem, page 975.