πότε
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Proto-Hellenic *kʷókʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷókʷe, from *kʷos + *-kʷe, equivalent to πο- (po-) + τε (te). See its indefinite form ποτέ (poté).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.te/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.te/
Usage notes
This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὁπότε (hopóte) can only introduce indirect questions.
Descendants
- Greek: πότε (póte)
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
Further reading
- “πότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πότε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πότε 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
- πότε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4219 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πότε (póte), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷokʷe, from *kʷos + *-kʷe, equivalent to πο- (po-) + τε (te).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpote/
- Hyphenation: πό‧τε
Adverb
πότε • (póte)
- when
- Πότε πάτε στην Αγγλία;
- Póte páte stin Anglía?
- When are you going to England?
Synonyms
- όταν (ótan, “when, while”)
Related terms
- πότε-πότε (póte-póte, “sometimes, now and then”)
See also
- ποτέ (poté, “ever; never”)
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