"οὔτε" meaning in Ancient Greek

See οὔτε in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /ǔː.te/, /ˈu.te/, /ˈu.te/, /ǔː.te/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈu.te/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈu.te/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈu.te/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈu.te/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan) Forms: oúte [romanization]
Etymology: From οὐ (ou, “not”) + τε (te, “and”). Head templates: {{head|grc|adverb}} οὔτε • (oúte)
  1. (rare) and not Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-rNy1XYsD
  2. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (often used to distinguish a general negation by dividing it into subordinate clauses)
    Tags: often, repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  3. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (alternating clauses with οὐδέ (oudé))
    Tags: repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  4. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (may be followed by a positive clause with τε (te))
    Tags: repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  5. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
    (in poetry, οὐ (ou) sometimes follows without any conjunctive particle)
    Tags: often, repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  6. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
    (sometimes replaced by οὐ (ou) in poetry)
    Tags: often, repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  7. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
    (the former οὔτε is sometimes omitted)
    Tags: often, repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  8. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
    Tags: often, repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  9. (mostly repeated) neither...nor
    (corresponding with μήτε (mḗte))
    Tags: repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
  10. (mostly repeated) neither...nor Tags: repeated
    Sense id: en-οὔτε-grc-adv-nSgc2RQM1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: οὔτ’ (oút’) [apocopic], οὔθ’ (oúth’) [apocopic]

Alternative forms

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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.265"
        },
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          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.3"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 3.8.1"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 27"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 53"
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          "english": "neither upon the earth nor under the earth.",
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.199"
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.450"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.488"
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.203"
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          "text": "6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 537"
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          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 49"
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        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 426B"
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        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327D, (compare 331C)"
        },
        {
          "text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.563, (compare Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.119, Isthmian Ode 2.65)"
        },
        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1139"
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        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 19D"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 182B"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.207"
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        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.27"
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        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.156, (compare Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 245)"
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          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 11.50, (compare Sophocles, Antigone 763, Euripides, Hippolytus 302)"
        },
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          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.37"
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          "text": "525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 450"
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        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 972"
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.138"
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          "οὐ",
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        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)",
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.566"
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          "text": "6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 125"
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        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115"
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        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.136"
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        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 588"
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        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
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          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.46"
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          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 64"
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          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 532"
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.368"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.108"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 388E"
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          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.16"
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          "text": "341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 68"
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          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.89"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.7"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.202"
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          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.12"
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        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ǔː.te/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "oút’",
      "tags": [
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    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek adverbs",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From οὐ (ou, “not”) + τε (te, “and”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oúte",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "οὔτε • (oúte)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.265"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.3"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 3.8.1"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 27"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 53"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "and not"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) and not"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "neither upon the earth nor under the earth.",
          "roman": "oút' epì gês oúth' hupò gês",
          "text": "οὔτ' ἐπὶ γῆς οὔθ' ὑπὸ γῆς",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.199"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.450"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.488"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.203"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often used to distinguish a general negation by dividing it into subordinate clauses)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "used to distinguish a general negation by dividing it into subordinate clauses"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 537"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 49"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 426B"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327D, (compare 331C)"
        },
        {
          "text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.563, (compare Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.119, Isthmian Ode 2.65)"
        },
        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1139"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 19D"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 182B"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.207"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.27"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "οὐδέ",
          "οὐδέ#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(alternating clauses with οὐδέ (oudé))"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.156, (compare Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 245)"
        },
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 11.50, (compare Sophocles, Antigone 763, Euripides, Hippolytus 302)"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.37"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "τε",
          "τε#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(may be followed by a positive clause with τε (te))"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 479"
        },
        {
          "text": "525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 450"
        },
        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 972"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.138"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "anacoluthon",
          "anacoluthon"
        ],
        [
          "οὐ",
          "οὐ#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)",
        "(in poetry, οὐ (ou) sometimes follows without any conjunctive particle)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in poetry",
        "followed by some other particle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.566"
        },
        {
          "text": "6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 125"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.136"
        },
        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 588"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "anacoluthon",
          "anacoluthon"
        ],
        [
          "οὐ",
          "οὐ#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)",
        "(sometimes replaced by οὐ (ou) in poetry)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by some other particle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.46"
        },
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 64"
        },
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 532"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "anacoluthon",
          "anacoluthon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)",
        "(the former οὔτε is sometimes omitted)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by some other particle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.368"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.108"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 388E"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.16"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "anacoluthon",
          "anacoluthon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "followed by some other particle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 68"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ],
        [
          "μήτε",
          "μήτε#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor",
        "(corresponding with μήτε (mḗte))"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "repeated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.89"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.7"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.202"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.12"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "neither...nor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neither",
          "neither"
        ],
        [
          "nor",
          "nor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly repeated) neither...nor"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "repeated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ǔː.te/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ǔː.te/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈu.te/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "oút’",
      "tags": [
        "apocopic"
      ],
      "word": "οὔτ’"
    },
    {
      "roman": "oúth’",
      "tags": [
        "apocopic"
      ],
      "word": "οὔθ’"
    }
  ],
  "word": "οὔτε"
}

Download raw JSONL data for οὔτε meaning in Ancient Greek (7.0kB)

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