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πότερʼ (poter)

πότερʼ is an Ancient Greek form of πότερος, meaning “which of two?; whether”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 1378: ἀμηχανῶ γὰρ πότερʼ ἔχω τάδʼ ἢ μεθῶ,

Aesop, Life of Aesop (Planudes) 33·4: … ῆς οἰκείας ἐρασθεὶς θυγατρός, εἰς ἀγρὸν ἀπέστειλε τὴν γυναῖκα, μόνην δὲ τὴν θυγατέρα ἀπολαβὼν ἐβιάζετο. ἣ δὲ ‘πότερ’, εἶπεν, ἀνόσια πράττεις· ηὐχόμην μέντοι ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἀνδρῶν αἰσχυνθῆναι, ἢ ὑπὸ σοῦ τοῦ γεννησαμένου.ʼ τοῦτο τοί …

All forms of πότερος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.