νηδύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to ὀσφῦς (osphûs), δελφύς (delphús) and ἰξύς (ixús). The etymology remains unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛː.dýs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ne̝ˈdys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈðys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈðys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈðis/
Noun
νηδῠ́ς • (nēdús) f (genitive νηδῠ́ος); third declension
- (anatomy) any of the cavities in the body, hence:
- stomach
- belly, paunch
- intestine, bowels
- womb, uterus
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ νηδῠ́ς; τῆς νηδῠός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νηδῠ́ς hē nēdús | τὼ νηδῠ́ε tṑ nēdúe | αἱ νηδῠ́ες hai nēdúes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νηδῠός tês nēduós | τοῖν νηδῠοῖν toîn nēduoîn | τῶν νηδῠῶν tôn nēduôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νηδῠῐ̈́ têi nēduḯ | τοῖν νηδῠοῖν toîn nēduoîn | ταῖς νηδῠσῐ́ / νηδῠσῐ́ν taîs nēdusí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νηδῠ́ν tḕn nēdún | τὼ νηδῠ́ε tṑ nēdúe | τᾱ̀ς νηδῦς / νηδῠ́ᾰς tā̀s nēdûs / nēdúas | ||||||||||
Vocative | νηδῠ́ nēdú | νηδῠ́ε nēdúe | νηδῠ́ες nēdúes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- νηδύα (nēdúa)
Further reading
- “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νηδύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νηδύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “νηδύς”, 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