νίκη

• νίκα (níka) — Doric

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neyk- (“to attack, run at”) and cognate with νεῖκος (neîkos, “quarrel, strife”), Lithuanian ap-ni̇̀kti (“to attack”); however, Beekes is semantically unconvinced, and prefers to take the word as Pre-Greek.^[1]

νῑ́κη • (nī́kē) f (genitive νῑ́κης); first declension

1. the act of winning: victory, success [with genitive ‘over, in something’]
   1. things won in victory, fruits of victory
   2. the upper hand, advantage

• “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νίκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νίκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3529 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.
  • conquest idem, page 161.
  • mastery idem, page 517.
  • superiority idem, page 839.
  • triumph idem, page 896.
  • victory idem, page 951.
• 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
• νίκη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

νίκη • (níki) f (plural νίκες)

1. victory

• νικώ (nikó, “to defeat”)
• νικητής m (nikitís, “winner, victor”)
• νικήτρια f (nikítria, “winner, victor”)
• νικηφόρος (nikifóros, “victorious”)
• νικητήριος (nikitírios, “winning”)