εἰκῇ

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps for *ἐϝεκῇ (*ewekêi), from Proto-Indo-European *weḱ-.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.kɛ̂ːi̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈke̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈci/

Adverb

εἰκῇ • (eikêi)

without cause
without planning, heedlessly, rashly, haphazardly
without purpose, for no reason
vainly, to no avail
slightly, moderately

Descendants

Aramaic:

Classical Syriac: ܐܝܩܐ (ʾīqēʾ)

References

“εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εἰκῇ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
εἰκῇ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
εἰκῇ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
G1500 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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