Νῖσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nîː.sos/ → /ˈni.sos/ → /ˈni.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nîː.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sos/

Proper noun

Νῖσος • (Nîsos) m (genitive Νῑ́σου); second declension

1. Nisos, Nisus
   • Apollodorus 3.15
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 1.39
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 9.1

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Νῖσος; τοῦ Νῑ́σου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Νῖσος ho Nîsos
Genitive	τοῦ Νῑ́σου toû Nī́sou
Dative	τῷ Νῑ́σῳ tôi Nī́sōi
Accusative	τὸν Νῖσον tòn Nîson
Vocative	Νῖσε Nîse
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Νῑ́σαιᾰ (Nī́saia)
• Νῑσαῖος (Nīsaîos)

Descendants

• Greek: Νίσος (Nísos)
• → Latin: Nīsus
• → Latin: nīsus

Further reading

• “Νῖσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Νῖσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018