νέμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νέμω (némō), from Proto-Indo-European *némos. Cognate with Latin nemus and Sanskrit नमस् (námas).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /né.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈne.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈne.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈne.mos/
Noun
νέμος • (némos) n (genitive νέμους or νέμεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ νέμος tò némos |
τὼ νέμει tṑ némei |
τᾰ̀ νέμη tằ némē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νέμους toû némous |
τοῖν νεμοῖν toîn nemoîn |
τῶν νεμῶν tôn nemôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νέμει tōî némei |
τοῖν νεμοῖν toîn nemoîn |
τοῖς νέμεσῐ / νέμεσῐν toîs némesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ νέμος tò némos |
τὼ νέμει tṑ némei |
τᾰ̀ νέμη tằ némē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νέμος némos |
νέμει némei |
νέμη némē | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- Νεμέα (Neméa)
Further reading
- “νέμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νέμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νέμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νέμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νέμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963