νεοσσός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νεοττός (neottós) — Attic
• νοσσός (nossós)

Etymology

Formed from νέος (néos, “new”), probably after the example of περισσός (perissós, “extraordinary, prodigious”), ἔπισσαι (épissai) or μέτασσαι (métassai).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.os.sós/ → /ne.osˈsos/ → /ne.oˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.os.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne.osˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ne.osˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ne.osˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ne.oˈsos/

Noun

νεοσσός • (neossós) m (genitive νεοσσοῦ); second declension

1. young bird, nestling, chick
2. any young animal
3. (in the plural) young bees
4. yolk of an egg

Declension

Second declension of ὁ νεοσσός; τοῦ νεοσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νεοσσός ho neossós	τὼ νεοσσώ tṑ neossṓ	οἱ νεοσσοί hoi neossoí
Genitive	τοῦ νεοσσοῦ toû neossoû	τοῖν νεοσσοῖν toîn neossoîn	τῶν νεοσσῶν tôn neossôn
Dative	τῷ νεοσσῷ tôi neossôi	τοῖν νεοσσοῖν toîn neossoîn	τοῖς νεοσσοῖς toîs neossoîs
Accusative	τὸν νεοσσόν tòn neossón	τὼ νεοσσώ tṑ neossṓ	τοὺς νεοσσούς toùs neossoús
Vocative	νεοσσέ neossé	νεοσσώ neossṓ	νεοσσοί neossoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νεοσσείᾱ (neosseíā)
• νεόσσευσῐς (neósseusis)
• νεοσσεύω (neosseúō)
• νεοσσοκόμος (neossokómos)
• νεοσσοποιέω (neossopoiéō)
• νεοσσοποιῐ́ᾱ (neossopoiíā)
• νεοσσοπῶλῐς (neossopôlis)
• νεοσσοτροφέω (neossotrophéō)
• νεοσσῐ́ον (neossíon)
• νεοσσῐ́ς (neossís)
• νεοσσῐᾱ́ (neossiā́)

 

Descendants

• Greek: νεοσσός (neossós)

Further reading

• “νεοσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεοσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νεοσσός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νεοσσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νεοσσός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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