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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

  • ὅσαι δ’ Ἐρινύων οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν νόμῳ, δρόμοισ ἀνιδρύτοισιν ἠλάστρουν μ’ ἀεί, ἑώσ ἐσ ἁγνὸν ἦλθον αὖ Φοίβου πέδον, καὶ πρόσθεν ἀδύτων ἐκταθείσ, νῆστισ βορᾶσ, ἐπώμοσ’ αὐτοῦ βίον ἀπορρήξειν θανών, εἰ μή με σώσει Φοῖβοσ, ὅσ μ’ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:5)
  • ὅτι τὸ ἄνηστισ ἡ νῆστισ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ ᾱ, ὡσ στάχυσ ἄσταχυσ, παρὰ Κρατίνῳ κεῖται οὐ γάρ τοι σύ γε πρῶτοσ ἄκλητοσ φοιτᾷσ ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἄνηστισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 272)
  • θερμὸσ μετὰ ταῦτα παρῆλθεν ἰσοτράπεζοσ ὅλοσ νῆστισ συνόδων πυρόσ ἔπειτα βαθμοὺσ ἀτμίζων ἐπὶ τῷ δ’ ἐπίπασται τευθίδεσ, ὦ φίλε, κἀξανθισμέναι καρῖδεσ αἱ κυφαὶ παρῆλθον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 2:6)
  • ὅσα γ’ ἀλλέξαι δυνατά, κρατέω κἄγωγ’ ἔτι, κοὒ κε λέγοι τισ πάνθ’ ἃ παρῆν ἐτύμωσ ὔμμιν παρέπαισε δὲ θερμὸν σπλάγχνον ἔπειτα δὲ νῆστισ δέλφακοσ οἰκετικᾶσ καὶ νῶτοσ ἐσῆλθε καὶ ὀσφὺσ καὶ μινυρίγματα θερμά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 3:5)
  • τὰ πόλλ’ ἄδειπνοσ περιπατεῖ, κεστρῖνόσ ἐστι νῆστισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 41 3:2)

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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