Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κότε ‎(kóte) Ionic
• πόκα ‎(póka) Doric

Adverb

πότε • ‎(póte) (interrogative adverb)

1. when? at what time?

Usage notes

This word can be used to introduce direct and indirect questions. ὁπότε ‎(hopóte) can only introduce indirect questions.

References

• πότε in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πότε in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πότε in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πότε» 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
• «πότε» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4219”, 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.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • when idem, page 975.
• 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

πότε • ‎(póte)

1. when

   Πότε πάτε στην Αγγλία;‎ ― Póte páte stin Anglía? ― When are you going to England?

Synonyms

• όταν ‎(ótan, “when, while”)

Related terms

• πότε-πότε ‎(póte-póte, “sometimes, now and then”)

See also

• ποτέ ‎(poté, “never”)