εἶτα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εἶτεν (eîten) — Ionic

Etymology

From εἰ (ei, “if”) and root of τά (tá).

Pronunciation

Adverb

εἶτα • (eîta)

1. (of mere sequence) then, next
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 262
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 251A
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 452
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 347
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 309A
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1036
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Ἐμπιπρ. 1
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.68
   1. (often stands with the finite verb after a participle, where the participle may be resolved into a finite verb and εἶτα rendered "and then", "and yet", expressing surprise or incongruity)
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 777
      • 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 1058
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 53
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 468
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1092–1094
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.25
2. (to denote consequence) and so, so then, therefore, accordingly
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1019
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 418
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 666
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 548
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 79
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1214
   • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 24
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 28B
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 203
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Φιλοθ. 1.15
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Μανδρ. 1

Derived terms

• ἔπειτα (épeita)
• κᾷτα (kâita)

Further reading

• “εἶτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἶτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἶτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἶτα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1534 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.
  • afterwards idem, page 17.
  • hereafter idem, page 397.
  • next idem, page 557.
  • secondly idem, page 747.
  • then idem, page 865.
  • thereafter idem, page 865.