3,274,919
edits
οὖν: Difference between revisions
1ba
(2b) |
(1ba) |
||
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
{{etym | {{etym | ||
|etymtx=Grammatical information: adv. pcle<br />Meaning: [[well]], [[so]], also (orig. ?) affirmative <b class="b2">in fact, indeed, certainly</b> (Hom., Att.).<br />Other forms: posthom. Ion. <b class="b3">ὦν</b> (also attested as <b class="b3">οὖν</b>), Lesb. Boeot. Dor. <b class="b3">ὦν</b>, Thess. <b class="b3">οὖν</b> (< <b class="b3">ὦν</b>?) postpositive pcle.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Already because of the unclear relation of <b class="b3">οὖν</b> to <b class="b3">ὦν</b> difficult to judge. Many quite hypothetical and little convincing explanations in Brugmann-Thumb 633 and in Schwyzer-Debrunner 586 f.; there also rich lit. On <b class="b3">οὖν</b> in Hom. cf. Reynen Glotta 36, 1ff. a. 37, 67 ff. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: adv. pcle<br />Meaning: [[well]], [[so]], also (orig. ?) affirmative <b class="b2">in fact, indeed, certainly</b> (Hom., Att.).<br />Other forms: posthom. Ion. <b class="b3">ὦν</b> (also attested as <b class="b3">οὖν</b>), Lesb. Boeot. Dor. <b class="b3">ὦν</b>, Thess. <b class="b3">οὖν</b> (< <b class="b3">ὦν</b>?) postpositive pcle.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Already because of the unclear relation of <b class="b3">οὖν</b> to <b class="b3">ὦν</b> difficult to judge. Many quite hypothetical and little convincing explanations in Brugmann-Thumb 633 and in Schwyzer-Debrunner 586 f.; there also rich lit. On <b class="b3">οὖν</b> in Hom. cf. Reynen Glotta 36, 1ff. a. 37, 67 ff. | ||
}} | |||
{{mdlsj | |||
|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[really]], at all events, used like [[γοῦν]] to [[dismiss]] a [[perplexing]] [[subject]], οὔτ' οὖν ἀγγελίῃς ἔτι πείθομαι, [[οὔτε]] θεοπροπίης [[ἐμπάζομαι]] Od.; ἐλέχθησαν λόγοι ἄπιστοι μὲν ἐνίοισι Ἑλλήνων, ἐλέχθησαν δ' ὦν but they [[really]] were [[spoken]], Hdt.; εἴτ' οὖν, [[εἴτε]] μὴ γενήσεται [[whether]] it shall be [[really]] so, or no, Eur.; εἴτ' οὖν ἀληθὲς εἴτ' οὖν [[ψεῦδος]] Plat.; εἰ δ' ἔστιν, [[ὥσπερ]] οὖν ἔστι, [[θεός]] if he is, as he [[surely]] is, a god, Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> added to indef. Pronouns and Advs., like Lat. [[cunque]], [[ὅστις]] [[whoever]], [[ὁστισοῦν]] [[whosoever]]; [[ὅπως]] how, [[ὁπωσοῦν]] [[howsoever]]; [[ἄλλος]] ὁστισοὖν [[another]], be he who he may; so, [[ὁποιοσοῦν]], [[ὁποσοσοῦν]], [[ὁπωσοῦν]], ὁποθενοῦν, etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[continue]] a [[narrative]], οἱ δ' [[ἐπεὶ]] οὖν [[ἤγερθεν]] so [[when]] they were [[assembled]], Il., etc.:—also to [[resume]] [[after]] an [[apodosis]], I say, Hdt., etc.; Hdt. inserts it [[between]] the prep. and its Verb, ἐπεὰν δὲ [[ταῦτα]] ποιήσωσι, ἀπ' ὦν ἔδωκαν.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in Inferences, then, [[therefore]], Lat. [[igitur]], Hdt., etc.; so, δὴ οὖν, οὖν δή Plat. | |||
}} | }} | ||