νηάς

See also: νῆας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛː.ás/ → /niˈas/ → /niˈas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛː.ás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne̝ˈas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈas/

Noun

νηᾰ́ς • (nēás) f (genitive νηᾰ́δος); third declension

1. gigantic, mythological animal from Samos called Neades in English, inspired by the fossilized remains of extinct proboscideans.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ νηᾰ́ς; τῆς νηᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νηᾰ́ς hē nēás	τὼ νηᾰ́δε tṑ nēáde	αἱ νηᾰ́δες hai nēádes
Genitive	τῆς νηᾰ́δος tês nēádos	τοῖν νηᾰ́δοιν toîn nēádoin	τῶν νηᾰ́δων tôn nēádōn
Dative	τῇ νηᾰ́δῐ têi nēádi	τοῖν νηᾰ́δοιν toîn nēádoin	ταῖς νηᾰ́σῐ / νηᾰ́σῐν taîs nēási(n)
Accusative	τὴν νηᾰ́δᾰ tḕn nēáda	τὼ νηᾰ́δε tṑ nēáde	τᾱ̀ς νηᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s nēádas
Vocative	νηᾰ́ς nēás	νηᾰ́δε nēáde	νηᾰ́δες nēádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “νηάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νηάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νηάς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1015