ἐπειδή

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπεί (epeí, “after, since”) + δή (dḗ, “emphatic particle”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.peː.dɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.piˈde̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.piˈði/

Conjunction

ἐπειδή • (epeidḗ)

(strengthened form of ἐπεί (epeí)) after, since

Descendants

Greek: επειδή (epeidí)

References

“ἐπειδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἐπειδή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐπειδή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“ἐπειδή”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1894 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.
- after idem, page 17.
- as idem, page 42.
- because idem, page 68.
- for idem, page 334.
- since idem, page 777.
- when idem, page 975.

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