νυσταγμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nys.taŋ.mós/ → /nys.taɣˈmos/ → /nis.taɣˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nys.taŋ.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nys.taɡˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nys.taɣˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nys.taɣˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /nis.taɣˈmos/

Noun

νῠστᾰγμός • (nustagmós) m (genitive νῠστᾰγμοῦ); second declension

1. drowsiness

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νῠστᾰγμός; τοῦ νῠστᾰγμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νῠστᾰγμός ho nustagmós	τὼ νῠστᾰγμώ tṑ nustagmṓ	οἱ νῠστᾰγμοί hoi nustagmoí
Genitive	τοῦ νῠστᾰγμοῦ toû nustagmoû	τοῖν νῠστᾰγμοῖν toîn nustagmoîn	τῶν νῠστᾰγμῶν tôn nustagmôn
Dative	τῷ νῠστᾰγμῷ tôi nustagmôi	τοῖν νῠστᾰγμοῖν toîn nustagmoîn	τοῖς νῠστᾰγμοῖς toîs nustagmoîs
Accusative	τὸν νῠστᾰγμόν tòn nustagmón	τὼ νῠστᾰγμώ tṑ nustagmṓ	τοὺς νῠστᾰγμούς toùs nustagmoús
Vocative	νῠστᾰγμέ nustagmé	νῠστᾰγμώ nustagmṓ	νῠστᾰγμοί nustagmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀρθονύσταγμος (orthonústagmos)

Descendants

• → English: nystagmus
• Greek: νυσταγμός (nystagmós)
• → Italian: nistagmo

Further reading

• “νυσταγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νυσταγμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νυσταγμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

νυσταγμός • (nystagmós) m (uncountable)

1. (ophthalmology) nystagmus, miner's disease

Declension

  νυσταγμός

case     \     number	singular
nominative	νυσταγμός •
genitive	νυσταγμού •
accusative	νυσταγμό •
vocative	νυσταγμέ •