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νειός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νειός νειοῦ

Structure: νει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fallow-land

Declension

Second 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

  • Δημήτηρ μὲν Πλοῦτον ἐγείνατο, δῖα θεάων, Ιἀσίων’ ἡρ́ωι μιγεῖσ’ ἐρατῇ φιλότητι νειῷ ἔνι τριπόλῳ, Κρήτησ ἐν πίονι δήμῳ, ἐσθλόν, ὃσ εἶσ’ ἐπὶ γῆν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ πάντη· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 104:1)
  • Ῥινὸν τρηχὺν καὶ πάχιστον, ὀχθώδεασ Ῥωγμοὺσ ἴσχοντα, αὐλῶνασ ἐπιμήκεασ , ἑτέρασ ἐντομὰσ κοίλασ, ἐπικαρσίουσ, ἄλλασ δὲ λοξὰσ, βαθείασ κάρτα, ἴκελον τὸ ξύμπαν τριπόλῳ νειῷ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 358)
  • ὣσ δ’ ὁπότ’ Ιἀσίωνι ἐυπλόκαμοσ Δημήτηρ, ᾧ θυμῷ εἴξασα, μίγη φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ νειῷ ἔνι τριπόλῳ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 11:4)
  • ὅσσον τ’ ἐν νειῷ οὖρον πέλει ἡμιόνοιιν, τόσσον ὑπεκπροθέων λαοὺσ ἵκεθ’, οἱ δ’ ἐλίποντο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 12:4)
  • Αἰάσ δ’ οὐκέτι πάμπαν Οἰ̈λῆοσ ταχὺσ υἱὸσ ἵστατ’ ἀπ’ Αἰάντοσ Τελαμωνίου οὐδ’ ἠβαιόν, ἀλλ’ ὥσ τ’ ἐν νειῷ βόε οἴνοπε πηκτὸν ἄροτρον ἶσον θυμὸν ἔχοντε τιταίνετον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 66:8)

Synonyms

  1. fallow-land

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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