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Νηρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νηρεύς Νηρέως

Structure: Νηρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Nereus, (the sea)

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἆγισ Ῥόδιοσ ὤπτηκεν ἰχθὺν μόνοσ ἄκρωσ, Νηρεὺσ δ’ ὁ Χῖοσ γόγγρον ἧψε τοῖσ θεοῖσ, θρῖον τὸ λευκὸν οὑξ Ἀθηνῶν Χαριάδησ, ζωμὸσ μέλασ ἐγένετο πρώτῳ Λαμπρίᾳ, ἀλλᾶντασ Ἀφθόνητοσ, Εὔθυνοσ φακῆν, ἀπὸ συμβολῶν συνάγουσιν Ἀριστίων σπάρουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 24 2:1)
  • ὁ πρῶτοσ εὑρὼν πολυτελὲσ τμητὸν μέγα γλαύκου πρόσωπον τοῦ τ’ ἀμύμονοσ δέμασ θύννου τὰ τ’ ἄλλα βρώματ’ ἐξ ὑγρᾶσ ἁλὸσ Νηρεὺσ κατοικεῖ τόνδε πάντα τὸν τόπον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 464)
  • Πόντου δὲ καὶ Γῆσ Φόρκοσ Θαύμασ Νηρεὺσ Εὐρυβία Κητώ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 2 6:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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