# οὔτε
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* οὔτ’ (oút’) — apocopic
* οὔθ’ (oúth’) — apocopic

### Etymology

From οὐ (ou, “not”) + τε (te, “and”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǔː.te/ → /ˈu.te/ → /ˈu.te/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ǔː.te/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈu.te/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈu.te/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈu.te/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈu.te/

### Adverb

οὔτε • (oúte)
* (rare) and not
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.265
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.3
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 3.8.1
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 27
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 53
* (mostly repeated) neither...nor
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.89
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.7
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.202
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.12
** (often used to distinguish a general negation by dividing it into subordinate clauses)
    οὔτ' ἐπὶ γῆς οὔθ' ὑπὸ γῆς oút' epì gês oúth' hupò gês neither upon the earth nor under the earth.
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.199
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.450
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.4
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.488
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.203
** (alternating clauses with οὐδέ (oudé))
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 537
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 49
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 426B
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327D, (compare 331C)
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 771
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.563, (compare Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.119, Isthmian Ode 2.65)
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1139
*** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 19D
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 182B
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.207
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.27
** (may be followed by a positive clause with τε (te))
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.156, (compare Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 245)
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 11.50, (compare Sophocles, Antigone 763, Euripides, Hippolytus 302)
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.37
** (often, by anacoluthon, followed by some other particle)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.368
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.108
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 388E
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.16
*** (in poetry, οὐ (ou) sometimes follows without any conjunctive particle)
**** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 479
**** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 450
**** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 972
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.138
*** (sometimes replaced by οὐ (ou) in poetry)
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.566
**** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 125
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.115
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.136
**** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 588
*** (the former οὔτε is sometimes omitted)
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 10.46
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 64
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 532
** (corresponding with μήτε (mḗte))
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 68

### References

“οὔτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “οὔτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “οὔτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* οὔτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* οὔτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “οὔτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3777 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. neither . . . nor idem, page 555.