Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κοτε ‎(kote) Ionic
• ποκα ‎(poka) Doric
• ποτα ‎(pota) Aeolic

Adverb

ποτέ • ‎(poté)

1. at some time, once, ever
2. presumably, possibly
3. whatever, whoever

References

• ποτέ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ποτέ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ποτέ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ποτέ» 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
• «ποτέ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ποτέ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4218”, 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.
  • any idem, page 33.
  • day idem, page 197.
  • ere idem, page 281.
  • erst idem, page 281.
  • ever idem, page 285.
  • formerly idem, page 339.
  • hereafter idem, page 397.
  • once idem, page 573.
  • one idem, page 573.
  • other idem, page 581.
  • yore idem, page 997.
• 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

Greek

Adverb

ποτέ • ‎(poté)

1. never (when used with the negative)

   Δεν τρώει ποτέ κρέας.‎ ― Den tróei poté kréas. ― He never eats meat.

   Η Ελένη δεν είναι ποτέ στην ώρα της.‎ ― I Eléni den eínai poté stin óra tis. ― Eleni is never on time.

2. ever, at any time (emphatic)

   Θα σταματήσεις ποτέ αυτή τη φασαρία;‎ ― Tha stamatíseis poté aftí ti fasaría? ― Will you ever stop this trouble?

   Γύρισε και είναι καλύτερα από ποτέ.‎ ― Gýrise kai eínai kalýtera apó poté. ― He is back and better than ever.

See also

• πότε ‎(póte, “when”)