κατεναντίον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κᾰτένᾰντᾰ (kăténăntă)
κᾰτένᾰντῐ (kăténăntĭ)

Etymology

From κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-, “against”) +‎ ἐνᾰντῐ́ος (enăntĭ́os, “opposite”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nan.tí.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈti.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.te.nanˈdi.on/

Adverb

κᾰτενᾰντῐ́ον • (kătenăntĭ́on)

over against, opposite
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.567
- Palatine Anthology 9.132
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.215
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 73
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.360
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.144
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Book of Sothis 1.285
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1116
- 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 114

References

“κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κατεναντίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κατεναντίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κατεναντίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette