εἰκῇ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps for *ἐϝεκῇ (*ewekêi), from Proto-Indo-European *weḱ-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.kɛ̂ːi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈci/
Adverb
εἰκῇ • (eikêi)
- without cause
- without planning, heedlessly, rashly, haphazardly
- without purpose, for no reason
- vainly, to no avail
- slightly, moderately
References
- “εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἰκῇ 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
- εἰκῇ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1500 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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