νοῦθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Usually compared with Latin nūbēs (“cloud”) and with other Indo-European words for cloud. However, together with νυθός (nuthós), may also form a Pre-Greek etymon.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nûː.tʰos/ → /ˈnu.θos/ → /ˈnu.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nûː.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.θos/

Noun

νοῦθος • (noûthos) m (genitive νούθου); second declension

1. tramp of feet

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νοῦθος; τοῦ νούθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νοῦθος ho noûthos	τὼ νούθω tṑ noúthō	οἱ νοῦθοι hoi noûthoi
Genitive	τοῦ νούθου toû noúthou	τοῖν νούθοιν toîn noúthoin	τῶν νούθων tôn noúthōn
Dative	τῷ νούθῳ tôi noúthōi	τοῖν νούθοιν toîn noúthoin	τοῖς νούθοις toîs noúthois
Accusative	τὸν νοῦθον tòn noûthon	τὼ νούθω tṑ noúthō	τοὺς νούθους toùs noúthous
Vocative	νοῦθε noûthe	νούθω noúthō	νοῦθοι noûthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νοῦθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νοῦθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN