νήδυμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Rebracketing of ἥδυμος (hḗdumos, “sweet, pleasant”), from the root of ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛ̌ː.dy.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne̝.dy.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ðy.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ðy.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.ði.mos/
Adjective
νήδῠμος • (nḗdumos) m or f (neuter νήδῠμον); second declension
- sweet, pleasant, delightful (epithet of sleep in Homer; used with other nouns by later writers)
Declension
Second declension of νήδῠμος; νήδῠμον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | νήδῠμος nḗdumos | νήδῠμον nḗdumon | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νήδῠμοι nḗdumoi | νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma | ||||||||
Genitive | νηδῠ́μου nēdúmou | νηδῠ́μου nēdúmou | νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin | νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin | νηδῠ́μων nēdúmōn | νηδῠ́μων nēdúmōn | ||||||||
Dative | νηδῠ́μῳ nēdúmōi | νηδῠ́μῳ nēdúmōi | νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin | νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin | νηδῠ́μοις nēdúmois | νηδῠ́μοις nēdúmois | ||||||||
Accusative | νήδῠμον nḗdumon | νήδῠμον nḗdumon | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νηδῠ́μους nēdúmous | νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma | ||||||||
Vocative | νήδῠμε nḗdume | νήδῠμον nḗdumon | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō | νήδῠμοι nḗdumoi | νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
νηδῠ́μως nēdúmōs | νηδῠμώτερος nēdumṓteros | νηδῠμώτᾰτος nēdumṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “νήδυμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νήδυμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νήδυμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “νήδυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press