νῆστις

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₁d -tis (literally “having no eating”). Cognate with Old Armenian նօթի (nōtʻi, “hungry”). By surface analysis, νη- (nē-) +‎ ἔδω (édō) +‎ -τις (-tis).

νῆστις • (nêstis) m or f; third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	νῆστῐς nêstis	νήστῐε nḗstie	νήστεις nḗsteis
Genitive	νήστῐος / νήστηος nḗstios / nḗstēos	νηστῐ́οιῐν nēstíoiin	νηστῐ́ων nēstíōn
Dative	νήστῐῐ / νήστῑ / νήστηῐ̈ / νήστει nḗstii / nḗstī / nḗstēï / nḗstei	νηστῐ́οιῐν nēstíoiin	νηστῐ́εσσῐ / νηστῐ́εσσῐν / νήστεσῐ / νήστεσῐν / νήστῐσῐ / νήστῐσῐν nēstíessi(n) / nḗstesi(n) / nḗstisi(n)
Accusative	νῆστῐν nêstin	νήστῐε nḗstie	νήστῐᾰς / νήστηᾰς / νήστῑς nḗstias / nḗstēas / nḗstīs
Vocative	νῆστῐ nêsti	νήστῐε nḗstie	νήστεις nḗsteis
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ νῆστῐς ho, hē nêstis	τὼ νήστῐδε tṑ nḗstide	οἱ, αἱ νήστῐδες hoi, hai nḗstides
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς νήστῐδος toû, tês nḗstidos	τοῖν νηστῐ́δοιν toîn nēstídoin	τῶν νηστῐ́δων tôn nēstídōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ νήστῐδῐ tôi, têi nḗstidi	τοῖν νηστῐ́δοιν toîn nēstídoin	τοῖς, ταῖς νήστῐσῐ / νήστῐσῐν toîs, taîs nḗstisi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν νήστῐδᾰ tòn, tḕn nḗstida	τὼ νήστῐδε tṑ nḗstide	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς νήστῐδᾰς toùs, tā̀s nḗstidas
Vocative	νῆστῐς nêstis	νήστῐδε nḗstide	νήστῐδες nḗstides
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.

The Gospel of Mark 8:3:
καὶ ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ· τινὲς γὰρ αὐτῶν μακρόθεν ἥκασι.
kaì eàn apolúsō autoùs nḗsteis eis oîkon autôn, ekluthḗsontai en têi hodôi; tinès gàr autôn makróthen hḗkasi.
- Translation by KJV
  And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

νῆστις • (nêstis) f (genitive νήστεως); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νῆστῐς hē nêstis	τὼ νήστει tṑ nḗstei	αἱ νήστεις hai nḗsteis
Genitive	τῆς νήστεως tês nḗsteōs	τοῖν νηστέοιν toîn nēstéoin	τῶν νήστεων tôn nḗsteōn
Dative	τῇ νήστει têi nḗstei	τοῖν νηστέοιν toîn nēstéoin	ταῖς νήστεσῐ / νήστεσῐν taîs nḗstesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν νῆστῐν tḕn nêstin	τὼ νήστει tṑ nḗstei	τᾱ̀ς νήστεις tā̀s nḗsteis
Vocative	νῆστῐ nêsti	νήστει nḗstei	νήστεις nḗsteis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“νῆστις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
νῆστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
νῆστις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
νῆστις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
“νῆστις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
“νῆστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “νήστης”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 783
G3523 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible