Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὐκ ‎(ouk) before vowel with smooth breathing
• οὐχ ‎(oukh) before vowel with rough breathing
• οὔ ‎(oú) pausal form
• οὐχί ‎(oukhí) Epic, Attic
• οὐκί ‎(oukí) Epic, Ionic

Adverb

οὐ • ‎(ou)

1. not (indicates negation)

Usage notes

οὐ is the indicative negator (i.e. of facts, statements), where μή ‎(mḗ) is the subjunctive negator (i.e. of will, thought). It usually immediately precedes the word (most often a verb) which it negates. Negative concord (also known as double negatives) is frequent in Ancient Greek.

References

• οὐ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οὐ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οὐ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οὐ» 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
• «οὐ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• οὐ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3756”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nay idem, page 553.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • not idem, page 560.
  • tear idem, page 858.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill