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νέκυς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέκυς νέκυος

Structure: νεκυς (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: like nekro/s

Sense

  1. corpse, dead person
  2. (in the plural) spirits of the dead
  3. (attributive) dead, deceased

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νέκυς νέκυε νέκυες
Genitive νέκυος νεκύοιν νεκύων
Dative νέκυϊ νεκύοιν νέκυσιν*
Accusative νέκυν νέκυε νέκυας
Vocative νέκυς νέκυε νέκυες

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

  • "ἀναστήσων ἤλυθε καὶ νέκυασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2811)
  • ὄμνυε νῦν νέκυασ, Δημόσθενεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 288 1:1)
  • πρὸσ τοὺσ αὐτούσ ἡνίκα τὸν περίβωτον ἐπ’ οὔρεοσ, ἄγριε Τιτάν, τύμβον ἀνερρήξω, πῶσ ἔσιδεσ νέκυασ, ὡσ δ’ ἔσιδεσ, πῶσ χεῖρεσ ἐπ’ ὀστέα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 2041)
  • διογενὲσ Λαερτιάδη, πολυμήχαν’ Ὀδυσσεῦ, τίπτ’ αὖτ’, ὦ δύστηνε, λιπὼν φάοσ ἠελίοιο ἤλυθεσ, ὄφρα ἴδῃ νέκυασ καὶ ἀτερπέα χῶρον; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 11:2)
  • "ἄρχετε νῦν νέκυασ φορέειν καὶ ἄνωχθε γυναῖκασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 72:1)
  • ἡ δ’ ὡσ οὖν νέκυάσ τε καὶ ἄσπετον εἴσιδεν αἷμα, ἴθυσέν ῥ’ ὀλολύξαι, ἐπεὶ μέγα εἴσιδεν ἔργον· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 66:6)

Synonyms

  1. corpse

  2. spirits of the dead

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