Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέω

Structure: νέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to spin, spun

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • σαφῶσ γὰρ τὰσ Πλειάδασ οὔσασ Ἄτλαντοσ θυγατέρασ Πελειάδασ καλεῖ, καθάπερ καὶ Πίνδαροσ ἐστὶ δ’ ἐοικὸσ ὀρειᾶν γε Πελειάδων μὴ τηλόθεν Οἀρίωνα νεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 1:1)
  • τοιαῦτά φασι τὸν ἀγαθὸν Κρέοντα σοὶ κἀμοί, λέγω γὰρ κἀμέ, κηρύξαντ’ ἔχειν, καὶ δεῦρο νεῖσθαι ταῦτα τοῖσι μὴ εἰδόσιν σαφῆ προκηρύξοντα, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμ’ ἄγειν οὐχ ὡσ παρ’ οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ὃσ ἂν τούτων τι δρᾷ, φόνον προκεῖσθαι δημόλευστον ἐν πόλει. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:14)
  • μακρά μοι νεῖσθαι κατ’ ἀμαξιτόν· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 77:1)
  • ὀρειᾶν γε Πελειάδων μὴ τηλόθεν Ωἀρίωνα νεῖσθαι. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 2 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε μοι κατάλεξον ἐτήτυμον, ὁππόθι γαίησ ναίετε, καὶ χρέοσ οἱο͂ν ὑπεὶρ ἅλα νεῖσθαι ἀνώγει, αὐτῶν θ’ ὑμείων ὄνομα κλυτόν, ἠδὲ γενέθλην. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 19:9)

Synonyms

  1. to spin

Derived

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

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