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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

  • νειὸσ ἀλεξιάρη παίδων εὐκηλήτειρα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 52:5)
  • ὀκριόεσσα δ’ ἐρείκετο νειὸσ ὀπίσσω, σχιζομένη ταύρων τε βίῃ κρατερῷ τ’ ἀροτῆρι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:44)
  • ἦμοσ δὲ τρίτατον λάχοσ ἤματοσ ἀνομένοιο λείπεται ἐξ ἠοῦσ, καλέουσι δὲ κεκμηῶτεσ ἐργατίναι γλυκερόν σφιν ἄφαρ βουλυτὸν ἱκέσθαι, τῆμοσ ἀρήροτο νειὸσ ὑπ’ ἀκαμάτῳ ἀροτῆρι, τετράγυόσ περ ἐοῦσα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:49)

Synonyms

  1. fallow-land

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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