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νῆστις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῆστις νῆστιος

Structure: νηστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: nh-, e)sqi/w

Sense

  1. not eating, fasting, hungry
  2. hungry, of hunger
  3. causing hunger, starving

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

  • ἢν δὲ μὴ ἐκ διαδέξιοσ νούσου, ἀλλ’ ἑωυτέου ἄρχηται ὁ λήθαργοσ, καὶ δοκέῃ πεπλῆσθαι ὁ νουσέων, ἢν μὲν αἵματοσ, φλέβα τὴν ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνι τάμνειν · ἢν δὲ φλέγματοσ ὑδατώδεοσ εἴτε ἄλλων χυμῶν, καθαίρειν χρὴ κνεώρῳ σὺν τῇ πτισάνῃ, ἢ ἐλλεβόρῳ μέλανι ξὺν μελικρή τῳ, πρὸσ τῇσι ἀρχῇσι, ἢν μετρίωσ βούλῃ· ἢν δὲ μεζόνωσ, τοῦ φαρμάκου τῆσ ἱερῆσ καλευμένησ νήστι διδόναι ὁλκῆσβ’, ξὺν μελικρήτου κυάθοισ τρισὶ, καὶ περιμείναν τα καθήρασθαι , τότε διδόναι σιτία, ἢν καιρὸσ ᾖ· ἢν δὲ μὴ, εἰσ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέρην ἡ τροφή· εὐκαιρίη δέ κοτε καὶ ἐν ἑσπέρῃ γίγνεται τῆσ ἱερῆσ ὁλκῆσ ͵α’ ὕδατι ἢ μελικρή τῳ λυομένησ, κυάθοισ δύο. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 103)

Synonyms

  1. causing hunger

Related

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

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