ὅταν
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hó.tan/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)o.tan/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.tan/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.tan/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.tan/
Conjunction
ὅτᾰν • (hótan)
- (with a conditional force, about events likely to recur) whenever, when
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 88a:
- Σωκράτης σκόπει δή, ὅταν τί ἑκάστου τούτων ἡγῆται, ὠφελεῖ ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὅταν τί, βλάπτει.
- Sōkrátēs skópei dḗ, hótan tí hekástou toútōn hēgêtai, ōpheleî hēmâs, kaì hótan tí, bláptei.
- Socrates: Now look at what, when it guides each of these things, benefits us, and what, when it [guides things], harms [us].
- Σωκράτης σκόπει δή, ὅταν τί ἑκάστου τούτων ἡγῆται, ὠφελεῖ ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὅταν τί, βλάπτει.
Usage notes
Like ἐάν (eán), only used with subjunctive.
Further reading
- “ὅταν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὅταν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὅταν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὅταν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὅταν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3752 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.
- crowning idem, page 187.
- whenever, whensoever idem, page 975.
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