νηστεία

From νῆστις (nêstis) (from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₁ed-tis|t=not eating) + -είᾱ (-eíā).

νηστείᾱ • (nēsteíā) f (genitive νηστείᾱς); first declension

1. fast (period of eating no food, little food or avoiding certain dietary items)
2. fasting

• νηστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νηστεία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “νηστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3521 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Ancient Greek νηστεία (nēsteía)

• IPA^(key): /nisˈti.a/

νηστεία • (nisteía) f (plural νηστείες)

1. fast (period of eating no food, little food or avoiding certain dietary items)

   η νηστεία της Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας

   i nisteía tis Megális Evdomádas

   the Holy Week fast

• δίαιτα f (díaita, “diet”)
• Σαρακοστή f (Sarakostí, “Lent”)

• see: νηστεύω (nistévo, “to fast”)

• νηστεία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language