οὐδείς

See also: ουδείς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

οὐθείς (outheís)
οὐδὴς (oudḕs) — Laconian, Doric

Etymology

From οὐδέ (oudé, “and not, not even”) + εἷς (heîs, “one”). Sometimes incorrectly stated as from οὐ (ou, “no, not”) + δείς (deís, “no one, nothing”), as a result of the later variant, οὐθείς (outheís).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.děːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈdis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/

Pronoun

οὐδείς • (oudeís)

no one, nobody, none, nothing, no

Inflection

First and third declension of οὐδείς, οὐδεμίᾰ, οὐδέν

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	οὐδείς oudeís	οὐδεμίᾰ oudemía	οὐδέν oudén	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδένες oudénes	οὐδεμίαι oudemíai	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Genitive	οὐδενός oudenós	οὐδεμιᾶς oudemiâs	οὐδενός oudenós	οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδεμίαιν oudemíain	οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδένων oudénōn	οὐδεμιῶν oudemiôn	οὐδένων oudénōn
Dative	οὐδενί oudení	οὐδεμιᾷ oudemiâi	οὐδενί oudení	οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδεμίαιν oudemíain	οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδέσι / οὐδέσιν oudési(n)	οὐδεμίαις oudemíais	οὐδέσι / οὐδέσιν oudési(n)
Accusative	οὐδένᾰ oudéna	οὐδεμίᾰν oudemían	οὐδέν oudén	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδένᾰς oudénas	οὐδεμῐ́ᾱς oudemíās	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Vocative	οὐδείς oudeís	οὐδεμίᾰ oudemía	οὐδέν oudén	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδένες oudénes	οὐδεμίαι oudemíai	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: ουδείς (oudeís)

References

“οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“οὐδείς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
οὐδείς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
οὐδείς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“οὐδείς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3762 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- no idem, page 559.
- nobody idem, page 559.
- none idem, page 562.