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

  • ἐν τούτῳ φανεῖσθε. νὴ τὴν ὑγίειαν Φαραώ, οὐ μὴ ἐξέλθητε ἐντεῦθεν, ἐὰν μὴ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ὑμῶν ὁ νεώτεροσ ἔλθῃ ὧδε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:15)
  • ἀποστείλατε ἐξ ὑμῶν ἕνα καὶ λάβετε τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὑμῶν, ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἀπάχθητε ἕωσ τοῦ φανερὰ γενέσθαι τὰ ρήματα ὑμῶν, εἰ ἀληθεύετε ἢ οὔ. εἰ δὲ μή, νὴ τὴν ὑγίειαν Φαραώ, ἦ μὴν κατάσκοποί ἐστε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:16)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἀνδρῶν δικαίων χρόνοσ σωτὴρ ἄριστοσ κατὰ Πίνδαρον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τεχνῶν νὴ Δία καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων γε καὶ παντὸσ ἄλλου σπουδαίου χρήματοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 21)
  • νὴ καὶ σύ γε, ὦ νεανίσκε. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 7:1)
  • "χρὴ δὲ πρὸσ ταῦτα λογίζεσθαι ὅτι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν διασαπέντων ἢ καὶ νὴ Δία καέντων μετ’ ὀλίγον, εἴ γε καῦσαί με διεγνώκατε, οὔτε σκότοσ οὔτε φῶσ ὁρᾶν δεησόμεθα. (Lucian, (no name) 16:15)

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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