ὅτι
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editOriginally the neuter accusative form of the indefinite relative pronoun ὅστις (hóstis, “whomever”)
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.ti/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.ti/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.ti/
Conjunction
editὅτι • (hóti)
- subordinating conjunction
- after verbs of perception and emotion, introducing a noun clause expressing a fact: that (with the same mood as the corresponding independent clause)
- after verbs of perception, emotion, saying, or hearing, introducing an indirect statement: that (with indicative or optative)
- introducing a causal clause expressing a reason: because, seeing that
- (with a superlative) as much as possible
Synonyms
edit- ὡς (hōs)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “ὅτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὅτι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅτι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὅτι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὅτι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3754 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.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 1086, 2577, 2240
- Albert Rijksbaron (2006), The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek, 3rd ed., Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press: sections 18.1-18.3, pp. 50-55