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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νῆστις νήστιε νήστιες
Genitive νήστιος νηστίοιν νηστίων
Dative νήστῑ νηστίοιν νήστισιν*
Accusative νῆστιν νήστιε νήστιας
Vocative νῆστι νήστιε νήστιες

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

  • ἐπίπροσθεν δὲ τοῦ ἐλλεβόρου χρὴ τόν τε στόμαχον μελετῆσαι ἐξεμέειν, καὶ τὰ ὑγρὰ λεπτῦναι, καὶ τὸ σκῆνοσ εὔροον ποιέειν· ἔμετοι δὲ τάδε πρήσσουσι, ἄλλοτε μὲν οἱ νήστιεσ, ἄλλοτε δὲ Ῥαφανῖδεσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 187)
  • "Εὐρύμαχ’, εἰ γὰρ νῶϊν ἔρισ ἔργοιο γένοιτο ὡρ́ῃ ἐν εἰαρινῇ, ὅτε τ’ ἤματα μακρὰ πέλονται, ἐν ποίῃ, δρέπανον μὲν ἐγὼν εὐκαμπὲσ ἔχοιμι, καὶ δὲ σὺ τοῖον ἔχοισ, ἵνα πειρησαίμεθα ἔργου νήστιεσ ἄχρι μάλα κνέφαοσ, ποίη δὲ παρείη. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 60:2)

Synonyms

  1. causing hunger

Related

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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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