πάλαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“far (in time or space)”).
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pá.lai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpa.lɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.lɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpa.le/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpa.le/
Adverb
πάλαι • (pálai)
- (of a point in the past)
- long ago, in days past
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.1:
- φαίνεται γὰρ ἡ νῦν Ἑλλὰς καλουμένη οὐ πάλαι βεβαίως οἰκουμένη
- phaínetai gàr hē nûn Hellàs kalouménē ou pálai bebaíōs oikouménē
- For apparently what is now called Hellas was not constantly inhabited in times past
- φαίνεται γὰρ ἡ νῦν Ἑλλὰς καλουμένη οὐ πάλαι βεβαίως οἰκουμένη
Derived terms
- παλαιγενής (palaigenḗs)
- παλαιός (palaiós, “old”)
References
- “πάλαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάλαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πάλαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πάλαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πάλαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πάλαι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3819 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.