πότερα (potera)

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

Found 295 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.65: … ν λόγων τριπλῆ· πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἐκδιδάξαι χρὴ ὅ τι ἐστὶν ἕκαστον τῶν λεγομένων· ἔπειτα, τίνος εἵνεκα λέλεκται, πότερα κατὰ προηγούμενον ἢ ἐν εἰκόνος μέρει, καὶ 〈εἰ〉 εἰς δογμάτων κατασκευὴν ἢ εἰς ἔλεγχον τοῦ προσδιαλεγομένου· τὸ …

Euripides, Hecuba 488: ὦ Ζεῦ, τί λέξω; πότερά σʼ ἀνθρώπους ὁρᾶν;

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 61.3: περὶ ἀνδρείας καὶ δικαιοσύνης ἐρωτηθεὶς ποτέρα βελτίων οὐδὲν ἀνδρείας ἔφη χρῄζομεν, ἐὰν πάντες ὦμεν δίκαιοι.

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.