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ὁπότερον (hopoteron)

ὁπότερον is an Ancient Greek form of ὁπότερος, meaning “which of two”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 276: γῆ δʼ ἐστίν, ὄνομα δʼ ὁπότερον βούλῃ κάλει·

Plato, Cratylus 432: … πάντα πανταχῇ αὐτοῖς ὁμοιωθείη. διττὰ γὰρ ἄν που πάντα γένοιτο, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἔχοι αὐτῶν εἰπεῖν οὐδεὶς οὐδέτερον ὁπότερόν ἐστι τὸ μὲν αὐτό, τὸ δὲ ὄνομα. ἀληθῆ λέγεις.

All forms of ὁπότερος (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.