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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From οὐ (ou, “not”) + δέ (dé, “but”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uː.dé/ → /uˈðe/ → /uˈðe/
Conjunction
οὐδέ • (oudé)
- (mostly answering to μέν (mén)) but not
- (more often) and not, nor
- (without a negative preceding)
- (with a simple negative preceding)
Adverb
οὐδέ • (oudé)
- not even, not at all
Usage notes
When οὐδέ (oudé) is repeated at the beginning of two clauses, the first is often adverbial and the second is a conjunction. It may also follow οὔτε (oúte), as an anacoluthon.
Descendants
References
- “οὐδέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐδέ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὐδέ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὐδέ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὐδέ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οὐδέ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3761 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.