εἴτε

See also: είτε and εἶτε

Ancient Greek

From εἰ (ei, “if”) +‎ τε (te, “even, and”).

εἴτε • (eíte)

(generally doubled) either...or, whether..or
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 606
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.349
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1049
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 843
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 683
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 345
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phil. 34B
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 471D
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.138
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1403
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 994
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 517
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 864A
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.35
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 768
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 468
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1.7
- 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 895
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277D
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 178
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 114
(like εἰ (ei), in indirect questions)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.90

“εἴτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εἴτε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“εἴτε”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εἴτε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
εἴτε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
εἴτε in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
“εἴτε”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1535 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.
- whether idem, page 975.

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