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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

  • ἄλλοσ ἐθερμοτράγει, ὁ δ’ ἤμει τὸν νῆστιν, ὁ δὲ ἀραιὰσ ποιῶν τὰσ ῥαφανῖδασ ἐμυστιλᾶτο τοῦ ἰχθυηροῦ ζωμοῦ, ἄλλοσ ἤσθιεν φαυλίασ, ὁ δὲ ἐρρόφει τῶν κριθῶν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 5:7)
  • ἀλλὰ φέρετ’ ἀπόβασιν ἡπάτιον ἢ καπριδίου νέου κόλλοπὰ τιν’ εἰ δὲ μή, πλευρὸν ἢ γλῶτταν ἢ σπληνὸσ ἢ νῆστιν ἢ δέλφακοσ ὀπωρινῆσ ἠτριαίαν φέρετε δεῦρο μετὰ κολλάβων χλιαρῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 4:6)
  • Δωρίων δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων τῶν κεστρέων τὸν μὲν θαλάττιον ἐκτίθεται, τὸν δὲ ποτάμιον οὐ δοκιμάζει, εἴδη δὲ τοῦ θαλαττίου κέφαλον καὶ νῆστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 1:1)
  • Φιλήμων Συναποθνῄσκουσιν ἠγόρασα νῆστιν κεστρέ’ ὀπτὸν οὐ μέγαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 79 1:3)
  • ὃσ νῦν τετάρτην ἡμέραν βαπτίζεται, νῆστιν πονήρου κεστρέωσ τρίβων βίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 79 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. causing hunger

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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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