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Νῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νῦσα Νῦσης

Structure: Νυς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • τῇ δὲ καλουμένῃ Νύσῃ τῶν Μακεδόνων ὀκνούντων προσάγειν ; (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 58 4:1)
  • Διόνυσον δὲ Ζεὺσ εἰσ ἔριφον ἀλλάξασ τὸν Ἥρασ θυμὸν ἔκλεψε, καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸν Ἑρμῆσ πρὸσ νύμφασ ἐκόμισεν ἐν Νύσῃ κατοικούσασ τῆσ Ἀσίασ, ἃσ ὕστερον Ζεὺσ καταστερίσασ ὠνόμασεν Υἅδασ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 4 3:12)
  • λέοντεσ δὲ καὶ παρδάλεισ, λύγκεσ, πάνθηρεσ, ἄρκτοι καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα ἐστὶ τοιαῦτα θηρία ἁλίσκεται ἐν ξέναισ χώραισ περὶ τὸ Πάγγαιον ὄροσ καὶ τὸν Κίττον τὸν ὑπὲρ τῆσ Μακεδονίασ, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ τῷ Μυσίῳ καὶ ἐν Πίνδῳ, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῇ Νύσῃ τῇ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Συρίασ, καὶ πρὸσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὄρεσιν ὅσα οἱᾶ́ τ’ ἐστὶ τρέφειν τοιαῦτα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 2:1)
  • Ὡσ δὲ ἐπέβη τῇ Νύσῃ Ἀλέξανδροσ, ἐκπέμπουσι παῤ αὐτὸν οἱ Νυσαῖοι τὸν κρατιστεύοντα σφῶν, ὄνομα δὲ ἦν αὐτῷ Ἄκουφισ, καὶ ξὺν αὐτῷ πρέσβεισ τῶν δοκιμωτάτων τριάκοντα, δεησομένουσ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἀφεῖναι τῷ θεῷ τὴν πόλιν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 1 3:1)
  • γενέσθαι δὲ καὶ φιλογέωργον τὸν Ὄσιριν, καὶ τραφῆναι μὲν τῆσ εὐδαίμονοσ Ἀραβίασ ἐν Νύσῃ πλησίον Αἰγύπτου Διὸσ ὄντα παῖδα, καὶ τὴν προσηγορίαν ἔχειν παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἀπό τε τοῦ πατρὸσ καὶ τοῦ τόπου Διόνυσον ὀνομασθέντα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 15 6:1)
  • ἔστι δέ τισ Νύση, ὕπατον ὄροσ, ἀνθέον ὕλῃ, τηλοῦ Φοινίκησ, σχεδὸν Αἰγύπτοιο ῥοάων, καί οἱ ἀναστήσουσιν ἀγάλματα πόλλ’ ἐνὶ νηοῖσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 1:4)

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

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