τότε

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τόκα (tóka) — Doric
• τόθ’ (tóth’) — apocopic, before a rough breathing
• τότ’ (tót’) — apocopic, before a smooth breathing

Etymology

Proto-Hellenic *tókʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *to- + *-kʷe. Compare ὅτε (hóte), πότε (póte). Cognate with Latin tum.

See its indefinite form τοτέ (toté).

Pronunciation

Adverb

τότε • (tóte)

1. at that time, then
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.724
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.31
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.100
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.182
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1517
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 334C
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 48
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 907
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 391
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 650
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1117
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1023
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 157A
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 799
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 915
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1402
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.86
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40
   • 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 12
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 766
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 853
   1. (joined with other particles)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.691
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 536
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.92
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.299
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.426
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.40
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 417
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.25
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 214
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.52
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.224
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.250
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.228
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.699
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 588
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 911
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 66
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1273
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 47
   2. (with the article)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.559
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.27
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.20
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.8
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 73
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1134
      • New Testament, Second Epistle of Peter 3:6
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.92
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 110D
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 270E
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 740C
   3. (εἰς τότε) until then
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 830B
      • 354 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Navy 24
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Julius Caesar 48
      • 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 1.26.4
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Psalms 92.2
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 4:17
   4. (in apodoses, answering to ὅτε)
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 778
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 971
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1116
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.244
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.257
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.702
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.341
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.36
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.192
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 773
      • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 17
      • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 73
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.476
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.17
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.294
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.69
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.59
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.209
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.461
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 565
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.478
   5. (used in late poets for ὅτε)
      • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 422
      • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 595

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲧⲟⲧⲉ (tote)
• Greek: τότε (tóte)

See also

References

• “τότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τότε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τότε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τότε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τότε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5119 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.
  • now idem, page 562.
  • one idem, page 573.
  • sometimes idem, page 793.
  • then idem, page 865.
  • time idem, page 875.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek τότε (tóte).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtote/
• Hyphenation: τό‧τε

Adverb

τότε • (tóte)

1. then
2. therefore

Derived terms

• τότενες (tótenes) (vernacular)
• τότες (tótes) (folksy)