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νῆις?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: nēis

Principal Part: νῆις νῆιδος

Structure: νηιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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)
  • ὃς δέ κεν αὐτὴν νῆις ἐὼν τὸ πρῶτον ἐπιζαφελῶς ἐρεείνῃ, μὰψ αὔτως κεν ἔπειτα μετήορά τε θρυλλίζοι. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 49:16)
  • ἦ τέ οἱ ἠε῀ν βέλτερον, εἰ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐνὶ κτερέεσσιν ἐλυσθεὶς νειόθι γαίης κεῖτο, κακῶν ἔτι νῆις ἀέθλων. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 5:27)
  • πῶς ἔρδω, πῶς αὖτε τόσην ἁλὸς εἶμι κέλευθον, νῆις ἐὼν ἑτάροις ἅμα νήισιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 7:7)
  • "Ἥρη, νήιδα μέν με πατὴρ τέκε τοῖο βολάων, οὐδέ τινα χρειὼ θελκτήριον οἶδα πόθοιο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 1:24)
  • εἰ δὲ νῆις ἔφυς Μουσέων, χερσὶ βάρος φορέεις. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 191 1:2)
  • εἰ δέ γε πάμπαν νῆϊς ἔφυς Μουσέων, ῥῖψον ἃ μὴ νοέῃς. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5832)

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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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