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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

  • καὶ γαστέρι δ’ οὔπωσ ἐστὶ νέκυν πενθῆσαι Ἀχαιούσ. (Lucian, (no name) 22:5)
  • ἢν μέν τισ αὐτέων νέκυν ἴδηται, ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέρην ἐσ τὸ ἱρὸν οὐκ ἀπικνέεται, τῇ ἑτέρῃ δὲ καθήρασ ἑωυτὸν ἐσέρχεται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 53:2)
  • οἰκτρὰ δὲ πάσχουσ’ ἱκετεύω σὸν ἐμοὶ παῖδα ταλαίνᾳ ’ν χερὶ θεῖναι νέκυν, ἀμφιβαλεῖν λυγρὰ μέλη παιδὸσ ἐμοῦ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ἡμεῖσ μὲν οὖν, ὅταν σὺ κοσμήσῃσ νέκυν, γῆν τῷδ’ ἐπαμπισχόντεσ ἀροῦμεν δόρυ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 1:8)
  • τόνδε δ’ Αἰγίσθου νέκυν Ἄργουσ πολῖται γῆσ καλύψουσιν τάφῳ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. corpse

  2. spirits of the dead

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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