νυός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *snusós. Cognate to Sanskrit स्नुषा (snuṣā́), Latin nurus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ny.ós/ → /nyˈos/ → /niˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ny.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nyˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nyˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nyˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈos/

Noun

νῠός • (nuós) f (genitive νῠοῦ); second declension

1. daughter-in-law
2. a bride, wife

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ νῠός; τῆς νῠοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νῠός hē nuós	τὼ νῠώ tṑ nuṓ	αἱ νῠοί hai nuoí
Genitive	τῆς νῠοῦ tês nuoû	τοῖν νῠοῖν toîn nuoîn	τῶν νῠῶν tôn nuôn
Dative	τῇ νῠῷ têi nuôi	τοῖν νῠοῖν toîn nuoîn	ταῖς νῠοῖς taîs nuoîs
Accusative	τὴν νῠόν tḕn nuón	τὼ νῠώ tṑ nuṓ	τᾱ̀ς νῠούς tā̀s nuoús
Vocative	νῠέ nué	νῠώ nuṓ	νῠοί nuoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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