εἴτε

See also: είτε and εἶτε

Ancient Greek

From εἰ (ei, “if”) +‎ τε (te, “even, and”).^[1]

εἴτε • (eíte)

(generally doubled) either...or, whether..or
- c. 420 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 606
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.349
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 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
- 375 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 Rex 517
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 864A
- 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.35
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 768
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 468
- c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.1.7
- c. 415 BCE, Euripides, Electra 895
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277D
- c. 445 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 178
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 114
(like εἰ (ei), in indirect questions)
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.90

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “εἴτε”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 394

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“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 (2006–2026)
“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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- whether idem, page 975.
εἴτε, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011