πότε
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷokʷe, 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.tɛ/
- (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.
See also
Ancient Greek correlatives (edit)
| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| basic | τίς | τις | †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, †ποθί | ἐνταῦθα | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι | |
| source | πόθεν | ποθέν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν | |
| destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
| time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε | |
| exact time | πηνίκα | πηνίκα | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | ||
| size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | ||
| repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τόσακις | †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
- 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- 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 9789004174207
Greek
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, “never”)
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