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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὡς (hōs, “as”) + τε (te, “and”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔ̌ːs.te/ → /ˈos.te/ → /ˈos.te/
Adverb
ὥστε • (hṓste)
- (chiefly Epic, used in similes, similarly to ὡς (hōs))
- (to mark the power or virtue by which one does a thing) as
Conjunction
ὥστε • (hṓste)
- (to express the actual or intended result, the effect)
- (mostly with the infinitive)
- (after comparatives with ἤ (ḗ), when the possibility of consequence is denied)
- (used with infinitive, of contingencies which may be more or less improbable)
- (sometimes) on the condition that
- (with the indicative, to express the actual result with emphasis)
- (at the beginning of a sentence, to mark a strong conclusion) therefore, consequently
- (with the optative, to express a supposed consequence)
- (with the participle instead of the infinitive, by a sort of attraction, after a participle in the principal clause)
4th century BC,
Isaeus,
Collected Works 76.19
References
- “ὥστε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὥστε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὥστε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὥστε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὥστε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5620 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.
- as idem, page 42.
- condition idem, page 157.
- far idem, page 306.
- like idem, page 491.
- on idem, page 573.
- prepare idem, page 635.
- provide idem, page 654.
- proviso idem, page 655.
- reservation idem, page 701.
- so idem, page 790.
- tear idem, page 859.
- that idem, page 863.