ὄφρα

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὄφρ’ (óphr’) — apocopic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.pʰra/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pʰra/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ɸra/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.fra/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.fra/

Conjunction

ὄφρᾰ • (óphra) (poetic)

in order that (with subjunctive or optative)
as long as, while (with imperfect, or subjunctive and ἄν (án) or κε (ke))
until (with aorist indicative of past time, aorist subjunctive of future time, optative of future in past)

Usage notes

Correlative to τόφρᾰ (tóphra).

References

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

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