ὅτι

See also: τι; ότι; ό,τι; ôti; oți; and 'oti

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅττι (hótti) — Epic

Etymology

Originally the neuter accusative form of the indefinite relative pronoun ὅστις (hóstis, “whomever”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.ti/ → /ˈo.ti/ → /ˈo.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.ti/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ti/

Conjunction

ὅτι • (hóti)

1. subordinating conjunction
   1. after verbs of perception and emotion, introducing a noun clause expressing a fact: that (with the same mood as the corresponding independent clause)
   2. after verbs of perception, emotion, saying, or hearing, introducing an indirect statement: that (with indicative or optative)
   3. introducing a causal clause expressing a reason: because, seeing that
2. (with a superlative) as much as possible

Synonyms

• ὡς (hōs)

Descendants

• Greek: ότι (óti)
• Pontic Greek: ότι (óti)
  • → Laz: ოტი (oťi)

References

• “ὅτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὅτι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὅτι 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
• ὅτι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅτι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3754 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • because idem, page 68.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • since idem, page 777.
  • that idem, page 863.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 1086, 2577, 2240
• Albert Rijksbaron (2006), The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek, 3rd ed., Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press: sections 18.1-18.3, pp. 50-55