Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νευρή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νευρή

Structure: νευρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for neura/.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • Νευρῶν δὲ τὸ πρὸσ βορέην ἄνεμον ἔρημον ἀνθρώπων, ὅσον ἡμεῖσ ἴδμεν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 17 2:3)
  • ἤδη ὧν ἀπὸ μὲν Ἴστρου τὰ κατύπερθε ἐσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν φέροντα ἀποκληίεται ἡ Σκυθικὴ ὑπὸ πρώτων Ἀγαθύρσων, μετὰ δὲ Νευρῶν, ἔπειτα δὲ Ἀνδροφάγων, τελευταίων δὲ Μελαγχλαίνων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 100 2:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ οἱ συνελθόντεσ βασιλέεσ Ταύρων καὶ Ἀγαθύρσων καὶ Νευρῶν καὶ Ἀνδροφάγων καὶ Μελαγχλαίνων καὶ Γελωνῶν καὶ Βουδίνων καὶ Σαυροματέων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 102 3:1)
  • λέγονται γὰρ ὑπὸ Σκυθέων καὶ Ἑλλήνων τῶν ἐν τῇ Σκυθικῇ κατοικημένων ὡσ ἔτεοσ ἑκάστου ἅπαξ τῶν Νευρῶν ἕκαστοσ λύκοσ γίνεται ἡμέρασ ὀλίγασ καὶ αὖτισ ὀπίσω ἐσ τὠυτὸ κατίσταται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 105 2:1)
  • καίτοι τὸ θαυμασιώτατον, γέρων ὤν, λελυμένων μὲν ἤδη τῶν τοῦ σώματοσ τόνων, περικεχαλασμένων δὲ τῶν σαρκῶν, κεκμηκότων δὲ καὶ τῶν νεύρων, ἀνενέασε (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:13)
  • τρίγλη δ’ οὐκ ἐθέλει νεύρων ἐπιήρανοσ εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 8 3:4)
  • εἱλουμένουσ δὲ ἐν ὀλίγῳ καὶ συμπίπτοντασ ἀλλήλοισ βάλλεσθαι καὶ ἀποθνῄσκειν οὐ ῥᾴδιον οὐδ’ ὀξὺν θάνατον, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ σπασμοῦ καὶ ὀδύνησ δυσανασχετοῦντασ καὶ κυλινδουμένουσ περὶ τοῖσ ὀιστοῖσ ἐναποθραύειν τοῖσ τραύμασι, βίᾳ τε πειρωμένουσ ἐξέλκειν ἠγκιστρωμένασ ἀκίδασ καὶ δεδυκυίασ διὰ φλεβῶν καὶ νεύρων προσαναρρηγνύναι καὶ λυμαίνεσθαι σφᾶσ αὐτούσ. (Plutarch, chapter 25 5:1)
  • τρίγλη δ’ οὐκ ἐθέλει νεύρων ἐπιήρανοσ εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1262)
  • τοῖσι μὲν οὖν πλείστοισιν αὐτῶν ἀποστάσιεσ ἐσ ἐμπυήματα συνέπιπτον‧ σαρκῶν καὶ νεύρων καὶ ὀστέων ἐκπτώσιεσ μεγάλαι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 165)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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