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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, (2010) "the relation between οὖν and ὦν is unclear. Unconvincing explanations in Brugmann-Thumb 1913: 633 and in Schwyzer 1950: 586f. On οὖν in Homer, cf.
Reynen Glotta 36 (1957): Iff. and Reynen Glotta 37 (1958): 67ff."
Pronunciation
Particle
οὖν • (oûn) (discourse particle) (Attic, Epic)
- then (implying temporal sequence)
- therefore (implying causal sequence)
- Marker of the continuation of a previously interrupted line of thought: "As I was saying..."
- Added to indefinite pronoun or adverb, such as ὁστισοῦν (hostisoûn), to make it more general: whoever, whatever; whosoever
Derived terms
References
- “οὖν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὖν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὖν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὖν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- οὖν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οὖν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3767 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.