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νῆις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῆις νῆιδος

Structure: νηιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: nh-, ei)de/nai

Sense

  1. unknowing of, unpractised in

Declension

Third 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

  • η τότε εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἰσραὴλ πρὸσ Ἰωσαφάτ. ἐξαποστελῶ τοὺσ παῖδάσ σου καὶ τὰ παιδάριά μου ἐν τῇ νηῖ. καὶ οὐκ ἐβούλετο Ἰωσαφάτ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 16:35)
  • ὅσ ποτε καὶ τῇδ’ ἦλθε, πολὺν διὰ πόντον ἀνύσσασ, Κύμην Αἰολίδα προλιπών, ἐν νηὶ μελαίνῃ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 69:8)
  • οὐ γάρ πώ ποτε νηί γ’ ἐπέπλων εὐρέα πόντον, εἰ μὴ ἐσ Εὔβοιαν ἐξ Αὐλίδοσ, ᾗ ποτ’ Ἀχαιοὶ μείναντεσ χειμῶνα πολὺν σὺν λαὸν ἄγειραν Ἑλλάδοσ ἐξ ἱερῆσ Τροίην ἐσ καλλιγύναικα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 72:2)
  • ὅν, ὦ κάκιστε, σοῖσιν ἐν δόμοισ λιπὼν Σπάρτησ ἀπῆρασ νηὶ Κρησίαν χθόνα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:29)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ Ἀδείμαντοσ βούλεται, οὐδὲ ἐρωτᾶν οἶμαι, ὅσ γε δὴ ἐν τῇ νηῒ τὸν ἕτερον πόδα ἔχει. (Lucian, 31:2)

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

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