νυνί

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Strengthened form of νῦν (nûn, “now”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nyː.nǐː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈni/

Adverb

νυνί • (nuní)

now, at this moment
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 325
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 290
- 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Fragmenta 41
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Hero 27
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 14
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Archidamus 7
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Cleonymus 20
- 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 25
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 35
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.92
- 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 129
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 306
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 448
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1357
- 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 190.16
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius Thessalonicensis 45.3

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively with the present tense.

References

“νυνί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“νυνί”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
νυνί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3570 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.
- as idem, page 42.
- now idem, page 562.