Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅκου ‎(hókou) Ionic

Adverb

ὅπου • ‎(hópou) (relative, interrogative, and demonstrative adverb)

1. where
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 403.E
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 415.D, (compare Herodotus, Histories 2.172)
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.27
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 517
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 287
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1301
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.129
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 342.E
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 403.C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.5
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 12
   1. (in indirect questions)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.16, (compare 16.306)
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 924
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.119
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 40, (compare Ajax 1237)
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.37
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.6.6
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 214
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.150
   2. (extended senses)
      1. (of time or occasion)
         • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 922, (compare 999)
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 582
      2. (of manner) by which, that
         • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 448
         • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1069
         • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 186
      3. (of cause) whereas
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.68
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.195
         • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 112.17
         • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 205
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.118
         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.11
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.7.3
2. (Koine demonstrative adverb)
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.427.C

References

• ὅπου in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅπου in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅπου in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὅπου» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὅπου» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3699”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ὅπου» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • where idem, page 975.
  • whereas idem, page 975.
  • wheresoever, wherever idem, page 975.