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Ancient Greek
- ἔτ’ (ét’) — apocopic before smooth breathing
- ἔθ’ (éth’) — apocopic before rough breathing
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognates include Latin et, Sanskrit अति (ati) and Old Church Slavonic отъ (otŭ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.ti/ → /ˈe.ti/ → /ˈe.ti/
Adverb
ἔτῐ • (éti)
- (of time) yet, still
- (of the present)
- (of the past, mostly with imperfect)
- (of the future)
- (with a negative) no more, no longer
- (of degree) yet, still, besides, further, moreover
- (often to strengthen a comparative)
- (with the positive)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ἔτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔτι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔτι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔτι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἔτι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2089 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.
- addition idem, page 11.
- besides idem, page 75.
- extra idem, page 297.
- further idem, page 350.
- long idem, page 498.
- more idem, page 541.
- moreover idem, page 541.
- still idem, page 817.
- too idem, page 880.
- well idem, page 973.
- yet idem, page 996.