νηστεία
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From νῆστις (nêstis) (from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₁ed-tis|t=not eating) + -είᾱ (-eíā).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛːs.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ne̝sˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /nisˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /nisˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /nisˈti.a/
Noun edit
νηστείᾱ • (nēsteíā) f (genitive νηστείᾱς); first declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νηστείᾱ hē nēsteíā |
τὼ νηστείᾱ tṑ nēsteíā |
αἱ νηστεῖαι hai nēsteîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νηστείᾱς tês nēsteíās |
τοῖν νηστείαιν toîn nēsteíain |
τῶν νηστειῶν tôn nēsteiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νηστείᾳ têi nēsteíāi |
τοῖν νηστείαιν toîn nēsteíain |
ταῖς νηστείαις taîs nēsteíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νηστείᾱν tḕn nēsteíān |
τὼ νηστείᾱ tṑ nēsteíā |
τᾱ̀ς νηστείᾱς tā̀s nēsteíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νηστείᾱ nēsteíā |
νηστείᾱ nēsteíā |
νηστεῖαι nēsteîai | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- νηστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νηστεία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “νηστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3521 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek νηστεία (nēsteía)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
νηστεία • (nisteía) f (plural νηστείες)
- fast (period of eating no food, little food or avoiding certain dietary items)
- η νηστεία της Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας
- i nisteía tis Megális Evdomádas
- the Holy Week fast
Declension edit
declension of νηστεία
Coordinate terms edit
Related terms edit
- see: νηστεύω (nistévo, “to fast”)
Further reading edit
- νηστεία - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.