διότι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Univerbation of δι’ (di’), apocopic form of διά (diá, “because of”), and ὅτι (hóti, “that”, conjunction).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.ó.ti/ → /ðiˈo.ti/ → /ðiˈo.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.ó.ti/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈo.ti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈo.ti/

 

• IPA^(key): /di hó.ti/ → /ði ˈo.ti/ → /ði ˈo.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di hó.ti/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di ˈ(h)o.ti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði ˈo.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði ˈo.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði ˈo.ti/

Medial aspiration or "interaspiration" in compounds is a documented feature of ancient Greek in occlusive voiceless consonants (κ, π, τ → χ, φ, θ) if the second word of the compound begins with an aspirated vowel; however, the possibility of this in all the other cases cannot be ruled out: Attic inscriptions don't indicate it but it is occasionally found. Also, Roman inscriptions show an alternation of transcription's standards: this may indeed have been a feature of Greek speech itself

Conjunction

δῐότῐ • (dĭótĭ)

1. because
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.44:

     ὁ Κροῖσος […] ἐκάλεε […] Δία […] ἐπίστιον, διότι οἰκίοισι ὑποδεξάμενος τὸν ξεῖνον φονέα τοῦ παιδὸς ἐλάνθανε βόσκων

     ho Kroîsos […] ekálee […] Día […] epístion, dióti oikíoisi hupodexámenos tòn xeînon phonéa toû paidòs elánthane bóskōn

     Croesus called on Zeus of the Hearth, because he received the guest into his house and, without knowing it, had been feeding the murderer of his son

References

• “διότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διότι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διότι in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• διότι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G1360 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • because idem, page 68.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • since idem, page 777.
  • that idem, page 863.
  • why idem, page 978.

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διότι (dióti).

Conjunction

διότι • (dióti)

1. because, for

Synonyms

• γιατί (giatí)
• επειδή (epeidí)