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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A variant form of σοι (soi, “to you”), dative of σύ (sú, “thou”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toi̯/ → /ty/ → /ti/
Particle
τοι • (toi) (discourse particle)
- (discourse particle, assuring the listener that what the speaker says is true, or implying the listener knows it is true) let me tell you, you see, certainly
Derived terms
References
- “τοι (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τοι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τοι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- τοι 1 in Lexicon to Pindar by William J. Slater, De Gruyter, Berlin, 1969
Greek
Pronoun
τοι • (toi) (weak personal)
- they (3rd person masculine plural, nominative)