ὥστε
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɔ̌ːs.te/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)os.tɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈos.te/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈos.te/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈos.te/
Adverb
ὥστε • (hṓste)
Conjunction
ὥστε • (hṓste)
- (to express the actual or intended result, the effect)
- (mostly with the infinitive)
- (after comparatives with ἤ (ḗ), when the possibility of consequence is denied)
- (used with infinitive, of contingencies which may be more or less improbable)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49, (compare Sophocles, Oedipus the King 374)
- (sometimes) on the condition that
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.37, (compare Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.26)
- (with the indicative, to express the actual result with emphasis)
- (at the beginning of a sentence, to mark a strong conclusion) therefore, consequently
- (with the optative, to express a supposed consequence)
- (with the participle instead of the infinitive, by a sort of attraction, after a participle in the principal clause)
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 76.19
- (mostly with the infinitive)
References
- ὥστε in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὥστε in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὥστε in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὥστε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὥστε in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5620 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.
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