Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ótan/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ótan/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ótan/

Conjunction

ὅταν • ‎(hótan)

1. (with a conditional force, about events likely to recur) whenever, when
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 88.a

     Σωκράτης   σκόπει δή, ὅταν τί ἑκάστου τούτων ἡγῆται, ὠφελεῖ ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὅταν τί, βλάπτει.

     Socrates: Now look at what, when it guides each of these things, benefits us, and what, when it [guides things], harms [us].

   • Homer, Iliad 1.519
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.6
   • Homer, Iliad 2.397
   • Homer, Iliad 1.567
   • Homer, Iliad 6.225
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 301
   • Plato, The Republic 565.A

Usage notes

Like ἐάν ‎(eán), only used with subjunctive.

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲟⲧⲁⲛ ‎(hotan)

References

• ὅταν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅταν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅταν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὅταν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὅταν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3752”, 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.
  • crowning idem, page 187.
  • whenever, whensoever idem, page 975.