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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νῆις νήιδε νήιδες
Genitive νήιδος νηίδοιν νηίδων
Dative νήιδι νηίδοιν νήισιν*
Accusative νήιδα νήιδε νήιδας
Vocative νῆι νήιδε νήιδες

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

  • "Ἥρη, νήιδα μέν με πατὴρ τέκε τοῖο βολάων, οὐδέ τινα χρειὼ θελκτήριον οἶδα πόθοιο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 1:24)
  • Μάγνησ δὲ γαμεῖ νύμφην νηίδα, καὶ γίνονται αὐτῷ παῖδεσ Πολυδέκτησ καὶ Δίκτυσ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 6:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ τεμένει τραφεὶσ Ἐριχθόνιοσ ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ, ἐκβαλὼν Ἀμφικτύονα ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀθηνῶν, καὶ τὸ ἐν ἀκροπόλει ξόανον τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ ἱδρύσατο, καὶ τῶν Παναθηναίων τὴν ἑορτὴν συνεστήσατο, καὶ Πραξιθέαν νηίδα νύμφην ἔγημεν, ἐξ ἧσ αὐτῷ παῖσ Πανδίων ἐγεννήθη. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 6:17)
  • οὗτοσ γαμεῖ Κυλλήνην, Νηίδα νύμφην, ἀφ’ ἧσ τὸ ὄροσ ἡ Κυλλήνη καλεῖταἰ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 13 1:4)
  • οὐ γάρ τίσ με βίῃ γε ἑκὼν ἀέκοντα δίηται οὐδέ τι ἰδρείῃ, ἐπεὶ οὐδ’ ἐμὲ νήϊδά γ’ οὕτωσ ἔλπομαι ἐν Σαλαμῖνι γενέσθαι τε τραφέμεν τε. (Homer, Iliad, Book 7 18:8)

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

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