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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

  • νειὸν δὲ σπείρειν ἔτι κουφίζουσαν ἄρουραν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 52:4)
  • τοὺσ ἐλάω ζεύξασ στυφελὴν κατὰ νειὸν Ἄρηοσ τετράγυον, τὴν αἶψα ταμὼν ἐπὶ τέλσον ἀρότρῳ οὐ σπόρον ὁλκοῖσιν Δηοῦσ ἐνιβᾴλλομαι ἀκτήν, ἀλλ’ ὄφιοσ δεινοῖο μεταλδήσκοντασ ὀδόντασ ἀνδράσι τευχηστῇσι δέμασ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 7:32)
  • τετράγυον δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἐφίετο νειὸν ἀρόσσαι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 9:18)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ Αἰσονίδαο πόθῳ μελεδήματ’ ἔγειρεν δειδυῖαν ταύρων κρατερὸν μένοσ, οἷσιν ἔμελλεν φθίσθαι ἀεικελίῃ μοίρῃ κατὰ νειὸν Ἄρηοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:17)
  • φθίσθω ἀεθλεύων, εἴ οἱ κατὰ νειὸν ὀλέσθαι μοῖρα πέλει. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:33)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ἀιέ βάξιν ἀγειρομένων ἡρώων, νεῖον ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίησ Λυρκήιον Ἄργοσ ἀμείψασ τὴν ὁδόν, ᾗ ζωὸν φέρε κάπριον, ὅσ ῥ’ ἐνὶ βήσσῃσ φέρβετο Λαμπείησ, Ἐρυμάνθιον ἂμ μέγα τῖφοσ, τὸν μὲν ἐνὶ πρώτῃσι Μυκηναίων ἀγορῇσιν δεσμοῖσ ἰλλόμενον μεγάλων ἀπεθήκατο νώτων· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 3:10)

Synonyms

  1. fallow-land

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