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νῆσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῆσις νῆσεως

Structure: νησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ne/w

Sense

  1. spinning

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νῆσις νήσει νήσεις
Genitive νήσεως νήσοιν νήσεων
Dative νήσει νήσοιν νήσεσιν*
Accusative νῆσιν νήσει νήσεις
Vocative νῆσι νήσει νήσεις

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

  • ὁ δὲ Βόργυσ τοῦ Ἀβάσκου διέχει σταδίουσ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσιν, καὶ ὁ Νῆσισ τοῦ Βόργυοσ, ἵναπερ καὶ Ἡράκλεια ἄκρα ἀνέχει, σταδίουσ ἑξήκοντα. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 18 3:2)
  • ταύτησ δ’ ἐφαψάμενον αὖθισ ἐπὶ τὴν τῆσ Ἀτρόπου ἄγειν νῆσιν, ἀμετάστροφα τὰ ἐπικλωσθέντα ποιοῦντα· (Plato, Republic, book 10 476:2)
  • καὶ νησὶσ ἐπῆν τῷ στόματι· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 41 1:2)
  • ἡ τερεβινθώδησ ὀλιγάμπελοσ οἱᾶ́ τε βαιὴ νησίσ, ἀλλ’ ὁμαλὴ πᾶσα καὶ ἀστύφελοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4131)
  • πρόκειται δὲ νησὶσ πέτρασ τῶν μεγάλων οὐ μείζων, Πέφνοσ καὶ ταύτῃ τὸ ὄνομα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 4:2)
  • φασὶ δ’ ἐν τῇ Πιτάνῃ τὰσ πλίνθουσ ἐπιπολάζειν ἐν τοῖσ ὕδασι, καθάπερ καὶ ἐν τῇ Τυρρηνίᾳ νησὶσ πέπονθε· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 113:8)

Synonyms

  1. spinning

Similar forms

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

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