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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Appears to be related to πρό (pró), Latin prior, priscus and Lithuanian prie, but the exact formation is uncertain. Perhaps from an old locative *pr-i of Proto-Indo-European *pró (“forward”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prín/ → /prin/ → /prin/
Adverb
πρῐ́ν or πρῑ́ν • (prín or prī́n)
- before, sooner, formerly
- (of future time, with future indicative)
- (of past time) formerly, once
Descendants
Conjunction
πρῐ́ν or πρῑ́ν • (prín or prī́n)
- before that, before
- (with infinitive)
- (with aorist)
- (after a positive clause)
- (after a negative clause)
- (with present, conveying a sense of continuance)
- (with perfect)
- (with a finite verb)
- (with indicative, chiefly aorist)
- (after negative clauses)
- (after positive clauses)
- (with subjunctive, after negatives)
- (with aorist, expressing an action preceding the action of the antecedent)
- (with present, rare)
- (with optative)
- (representing subjective after historical tenses)
- (by assimilation)
- (with ἄν (án))
- (without a verb)
References
Further reading
- “πρίν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρίν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πρίν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρίν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρίν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πρίν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4250 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.
- “πρίν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011