νήθουσα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a Pre-Greek word in view of the suffix; see ἄγχουσα (ánkhousa), αἴθουσα (aíthousa) and κάδουσα (kádousa).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛ̌ː.tʰuː.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne̝.tʰu.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/
Noun
νήθουσᾰ • (nḗthousă) f (genitive νηθούσης); first declension
- unknown kind of plant
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ νήθουσᾰ hē nḗthousă |
τὼ νηθούσᾱ tṑ nēthoúsā |
αἱ νήθουσαι hai nḗthousai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς νηθούσης tês nēthoúsēs |
τοῖν νηθούσαιν toîn nēthoúsain |
τῶν νηθουσῶν tôn nēthousôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ νηθούσῃ tēî nēthoúsēi |
τοῖν νηθούσαιν toîn nēthoúsain |
ταῖς νηθούσαις taîs nēthoúsais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν νήθουσᾰν tḕn nḗthousăn |
τὼ νηθούσᾱ tṑ nēthoúsā |
τᾱ̀ς νηθούσᾱς tā̀s nēthoúsās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νήθουσᾰ nḗthousă |
νηθούσᾱ nēthoúsā |
νήθουσαι nḗthousai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “νήθουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νήθουσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1015