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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

  • αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν οἰκείων τοῦ νέκυοσ ἕκαστοι φυλάξαντεσ ἀριθμὸν ἡμερέων τριήκοντα καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ξυράμενοι ἐσέρχονται· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 53:3)
  • Ἔνθα δὲ ναυτιλίησ μὲν ἐρητύοντο μέλεσθαι, ἀμφὶ δὲ κηδείῃ νέκυοσ μένον ἀσχαλόωντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 14:1)
  • λῦε, κυβερνήτα, νέκυοσ προφύγωμεν ἀπειλάσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 6a 1:4)
  • ̔ Τετμενάνησ ὅδε τύμβοσ ἐυγλύπτοιο μετάλλου ἡρ́ωοσ μεγάλου νέκυοσ κατὰ σῶμα καλύπτει Ζηνοδότου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3631)
  • ψυχράν σευ κεφαλᾶσ ἐπαμήσομαι αἰγιαλῖτιν θῖνα κατὰ κρυεροῦ χευάμενοσ νέκυοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4041)

Synonyms

  1. corpse

  2. spirits of the dead

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