ἄρτι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Appears to be a locative of a derivative of the root Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit”). Compare ἀραρίσκω (ararískō), Old Armenian արդ (ard), Lithuanian arti, and Latin ars.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.ti/ → /ˈar.ti/ → /ˈar.ti/

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

Adverb

ᾰ̓́ρτῐ • (árti)

1. (mostly of the present) this moment, even now
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.158
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 534
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1283
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1386
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 43A
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1008
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 291AB
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 23.26
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Galatians 1:9
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.6.1
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 153E
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.25
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 4:11
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 4
2. (of the past) just now, just
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 546
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 454B
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1272
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1160
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 130D
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 89C
3. (Koine, of the future)
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 26.7
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Soloecista 1
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Mithridatic Wars 69
   • Astrampsychus, Oracles 94.2
   • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 20.277

References

• “ἄρτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄρτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρτι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρτι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄρτι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G737 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.
  • freshly idem, page 345.
  • just idem, page 466.
  • lately idem, page 478.
  • newly idem, page 557.
  • now idem, page 562.
  • recently idem, page 678.
  • scarcely idem, page 737.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN