καίπερ

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǎi̯.per/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.per/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcɛ.per/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.per/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.per/

Conjunction

καίπερ • (kaíper)

although, albeit
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.224
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.70
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.577
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.125
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.135
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.555
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.4
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.6
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 199.2
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 907
- 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 712
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 377
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 495D
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1326
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.247
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.104
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1141
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 647
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.36
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219C

Usage notes

Sometimes has a word in between it, always in Homer.

References

“καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“καίπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
καίπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“καίπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2539 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.
- although idem, page 26.
- however idem, page 408.
- though idem, page 868.