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νῖκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῖκος νῖκη νῖκον

Structure: νικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: later form for ni/kh, Anth.

Sense

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ παρεκάλει τοὺσ σὺν αὐτῷ μὴ δειλιᾶν τὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν ἔφοδον, ἔχοντασ δὲ κατὰ νοῦν τὰ προγεγονότα αὐτοῖσ ἀπ̓ οὐρανοῦ βοηθήματα καὶ τανῦν προσδοκᾶν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ Παντοκράτοροσ ἐσομένην αὐτοῖσ νίκην καὶ βοήθειαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:8)
  • συνιδὼν ὁ Μακκαβαῖοσ τὴν τῶν πληθῶν παρουσίαν καὶ τῶν ὅπλων τὴν ποικίλην παρασκευὴν τήν τε τῶν θηρίων ἀγριότητα, προτείνασ τὰσ χεῖρασ εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἐπεκαλέσατο τὸν τερατοποιὸν Κύριον, τὸν κατόπτην, γινώσκων ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι δἰ ὅπλων ἡ νίκη, καθὼσ δὲ ἂν αὐτῷ κριθείη, τοῖσ ἀξίοισ περιποιεῖται τὴν νίκην. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:21)
  • α νίκην καὶ τιμὴν περιποιεῖται ὁ δῶρα δούσ, τὴν μέντοι ψυχὴν ἀφαιρεῖται τῶν κεκτημένων. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:10)
  • ὣσ εἰποῦσ’ ἐσ δίφρον ἐβήσατο δῖα θεάων, νίκην ἀθανάτῃσ χερσὶν καὶ κῦδοσ ἔχουσα, ἐσσυμένωσ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 32:1)
  • ὁ δὲ πρὸσ τὸ ἀποβεβηκὸσ τὴν Δελφικὴν ἐκείνην ἀπολογίαν καὶ τὸν τοῦ Κροίσου χρησμὸν ψυχρῶσ παρῆγεν νίκην μὲν γὰρ προειπεῖν τὸν θεόν, μὴ μέντοι δηλῶσαι Ῥωμαίων ἢ τῶν πολεμίων. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 48:8)

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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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