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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

  • νήιδεσ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ἀφράδμονεσ οὔτ’ ἀγαθοῖο αἶσαν ἐπερχομένου προγνώμεναι οὔτε κακοῖο· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 29:1)
  • 699ξ νῦν δὲ τὸ μὲν Τελχῖνεσ ἐπιτρύζουσιν ἀεικὲσ νήϊδεσ οἳ Μούσησ οὐκ ἐγένοντο φίλοι, εἵνεκεν οὐχ ἓν ἀείσμα διηνεκέσ, ἢ βασιλῆασ κλῄσασ, ἐν πολλαῖσ ἤνυσα χιλιάσιν, ἢ ἀρχαίουσ ἡρ́ωασ, ἔποσ δ’ ἐπὶ τυτθὸν ἑλίσσω παῖσ ἅτε· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , prop. i. 9. 931)

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

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