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νυστακτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυστακτής νυστακτοῦ

Structure: νυστακτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from nusta/zw

Sense

  1. one that nods, nodding

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυστακτής νυστακτᾱ́ νυστακταί
Genitive νυστακτοῦ νυστακταῖν νυστακτῶν
Dative νυστακτῇ νυστακταῖν νυστακταῖς
Accusative νυστακτήν νυστακτᾱ́ νυστακτᾱ́ς
Vocative νυστακτά νυστακτᾱ́ νυστακταί

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

  • κἀμοὶ γὰρ ἀρτίωσ ἐπεστρατεύσατο Μῆδόσ τισ ἐπὶ τὰ βλέφαρα νυστακτὴσ ὕπνοσ· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. one that nods

Similar forms

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

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