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νύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύχιος νύχιᾱ νύχιον

Structure: νυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. nightly
  2. doing, by night
  3. happening by night
  4. dark as night, gloomy

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative νύχιος νυχίᾱ νύχιον
Genitive νυχίου νυχίᾱς νυχίου
Dative νυχίῳ νυχίᾱͅ νυχίῳ
Accusative νύχιον νυχίᾱν νύχιον
Vocative νύχιε νυχίᾱ νύχιον
DualN/A/V νυχίω νυχίᾱ νυχίω
G/D νυχίοιν νυχίαιν νυχίοιν
PluralNominative νύχιοι νύχιαι νύχια
Genitive νυχίων νυχιῶν νυχίων
Dative νυχίοις νυχίαις νυχίοις
Accusative νυχίους νυχίᾱς νύχια
Vocative νύχιοι νύχιαι νύχια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective νύχιος νυχίου νυχιώτερος νυχιωτέρου νυχιώτατος νυχιωτάτου
Adverb νυχίως νυχιώτερον νυχιώτατα

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

  • νύχιοσ ἢ καθ’ ἡμέραν; (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:8)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ ὁ Τιμοθέου Χάρων σχολάζειν οὐκ ἐᾷ οὑκ τῆσ Νιόβησ, χωρεῖν δὲ πορθμίδὲ ἀναβοᾷ, καλεῖ δέ μοῖρα νύχιοσ, ἧσ κλύειν χρεών, ἵν’ ἔχων ἀποτρέχω πάντα τἀμαυτοῦ κάτω, τοῦ πουλύποδὸσ μοι τὸ κατάλοιπον ἀπόδοτε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 26 2:5)
  • ἁνὴρ δ’ ἀνόμματοσ οὐδ’ ἔχων ἀρωγὰν ἐκτέταται νύχιοσ, ἀλεὴσ ὕπνοσ ἐσθλόσ, οὐ χερόσ, οὐ ποδόσ, οὔ τινοσ ἄρχων, ἀλλά τισ ὡσ Αἴ̈δᾳ παρακείμενοσ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, epode2)
  • ἀνωλόλυξα μὲν πάλαι χαρᾶσ ὕπο, ὅτ’ ἦλθ’ ὁ πρῶτοσ νύχιοσ ἄγγελοσ πυρόσ, φράζων ἅλωσιν Ἰλίου τ’ ἀνάστασιν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. nightly

  2. dark as night

Related

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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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