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νύσσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύσσα νύσσης

Structure: νυσς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: nu/ssw

Sense

  1. posts
  2. the turning-post
  3. the starting post, the winning post

Declension

First 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

  • ἐν νύσσῃ δέ τοι ἵπποσ ἀριστερὸσ ἐγχριμφθήτω,ὡσ ἄν τοι πλήμνη γε δοάσσεται ἄκρον ἱκέσθαικύκλου ποιητοῖο· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 44:2)
  • ἐν νύσσῃ δέ τοι ἵπποσ ἀριστερὸσ ἐγχριμφθήτω, ὡσ ἄν τοι πλήμνη γε δοάσσεται ἄκρον ἱκέσθαι κύκλου ποιητοῖο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 29:8)
  • εἰ γάρ κ’ ἐν νύσσῃ γε παρεξελάσῃσθα διώκων, οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅσ κέ σ’ ἕλῃσι μετάλμενοσ οὐδὲ παρέλθῃ, οὐδ’ εἴ κεν μετόπισθεν Ἀρίονα δῖον ἐλαύνοι Ἀδρήστου ταχὺν ἵππον, ὃσ ἐκ θεόφιν γένοσ ἠε͂ν, ἢ τοὺσ Λαομέδοντοσ, οἳ ἐνθάδε γ’ ἔτραφεν ἐσθλοί. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 29:12)

Synonyms

  1. posts

  2. the turning-post

  3. the starting post

Related

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

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