# τότε
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* τόκα (tóka) — Doric
* τόθ’ (tóth’) — apocopic, before a rough breathing
* τότ’ (tót’) — apocopic, before a smooth breathing

### Etymology

Proto-Hellenic *tókʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *to- + *-kʷe. Compare ὅτε (hóte), πότε (póte). Cognate with Latin tum.
See its indefinite form τοτέ (toté).

### Pronunciation

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

### Adverb

τότε • (tóte)
* at that time, then
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.724
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.31
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.100
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.182
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1517
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 334C
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 48
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 907
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 391
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 650
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1117
** 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1023
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 157A
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 799
** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 915
** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1402
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.86
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40
** 344 BCE – 343 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Philippic 12
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 766
** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 853
** (joined with other particles)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.691
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 536
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.92
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.299
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.426
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.40
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 417
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.25
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 214
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.52
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.224
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.250
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.228
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.699
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 588
*** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 911
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 66
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1273
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 47
** (with the article)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.559
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.27
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.20
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.8
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 73
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1134
*** New Testament, Second Epistle of Peter 3:6
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.92
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 110D
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 270E
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 740C
** (εἰς τότε) until then
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 830B
*** 354 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Navy 24
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Julius Caesar 48
*** 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 1.26.4
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Psalms 92.2
*** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 4:17
** (in apodoses, answering to ὅτε)
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 778
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 971
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1116
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.244
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.257
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.702
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.341
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.36
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.192
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 773
*** 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 17
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 73
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.476
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.17
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.294
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.69
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.59
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.209
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.461
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 565
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.478
** (used in late poets for ὅτε)
*** 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 422
*** 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 595

#### Descendants

* → Coptic: ⲧⲟⲧⲉ (tote)
* Greek: τότε (tóte)

#### See also

| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
| dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | | | | ὁπότερος | ὁπότερος | | |
| quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος |
| quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | | |
| manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως |
| method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | | ἄλλῃ |
| place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι |
| source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
| destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
| time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε |
| exact time | πηνίκα | | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |
| duration of time | | | τέως | | | ἕως | | | |
| size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | |
| repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | | | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | | |
| multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | | | | | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | | | |
| order | πόστος | ποστός | | | | | ὁπόστος | | |
| † Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. ||||||||||

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τότε”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1497

### Further reading

* “τότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “τότε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “τότε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* τότε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* τότε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “τότε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G5119 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. now idem, page 562.one idem, page 573.sometimes idem, page 793.then idem, page 865.time idem, page 875.

## Greek
### Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek τότε (tóte).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtote/
* Hyphenation: τό‧τε

### Adverb

τότε • (tóte)
* then
* therefore

#### Derived terms

* τότενες (tótenes) (vernacular)
* τότες (tótes) (folksy)