διό

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Univerbation of δι' ὅ (di' hó); see δῐᾰ́ (diá, “because of”) and ὅ (hó, “which”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.ó/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈo/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo/

Conjunction

δῐό • (dió)

wherefore, on which account
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 358D
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.21
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 518A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 258E
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 203C
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92
because
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Plants 2.4.5

See also

δῐότῐ (dióti)

References

“διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“διό”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
διό in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
διό in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
G1352 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.
- therefore idem, page 865.
- wherefore idem, page 975.

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