μήτε

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μήτ’ (mḗt’) — apocopic

Etymology

From μή (mḗ, “not”) +‎ τε (te, “and”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.te/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.te/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.te/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.te/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.te/

Conjunction

μήτε • (mḗte)

(mostly doubled, sometimes with μηδέ (mēdé)) and not, neither...nor
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 358
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 472
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.308
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.230
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.63
- 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 454
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 72
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 421
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 627E
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 496
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 978
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771

Further reading

“μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μήτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μήτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μήτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μήτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“μήτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3383 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.
- neither . . . nor idem, page 555.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μήτε (mḗte).

Conjunction

μήτε • (míte)

neither … nor
nor even, not even

See also

είτε (eíte, “either”)
ούτε (oúte, “neither”)

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