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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sn̥Hter (whence also Proto-Germanic *sunder (“apart, separately”)), from *senH- (whence ᾰ̓́νευ (áneu), Latin sine and Sanskrit सनितुर् (sanitúr)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ter/ → /ˈa.ter/ → /ˈa.ter/
Preposition
ἄτερ • (áter) (governs the genitive)
- without
- apart from
Further reading
- “ἄτερ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄτερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄτερ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἄτερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.