καθότι

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κατότι (katóti) — Ionic

Etymology

From κατά (katá) +‎ ὅ (hó) +‎ τι (ti).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tʰó.ti/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈtʰo.ti/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/

Adverb

καθότι • (kathóti)

in what manner, so far as, inasmuch as
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.2
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.82
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.25.3

References

“καθότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“καθότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
καθότι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2530 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καθότι (kathóti) with semantic loan from French en tant que.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈθo.ti/
Hyphenation: κα‧θό‧τι

Conjunction

καθότι • (kathóti)

since, inasmuch as (because)
Synonyms: διότι (dióti), επειδή (epeidí), καθώς (kathós)

References

^ καθότι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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