νόσος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- νοῦσος (noûsos) – Epic, Ionic
Etymology
Uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nó.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.sos/
Noun
νόσος • (nósos) f (genitive νόσου); second declension
- sickness, disease, illness
- plague
- misery, suffering, distress
- madness, vice
- bane
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ νόσος; τῆς νόσου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νόσος hē nósos | τὼ νόσω tṑ nósō | αἱ νόσοι hai nósoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νόσου tês nósou | τοῖν νόσοιν toîn nósoin | τῶν νόσων tôn nósōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νόσῳ têi nósōi | τοῖν νόσοιν toîn nósoin | ταῖς νόσοις taîs nósois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νόσον tḕn nóson | τὼ νόσω tṑ nósō | τᾱ̀ς νόσους tā̀s nósous | ||||||||||
Vocative | νόσε nóse | νόσω nósō | νόσοι nósoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: noso-
- Greek: νόσος (nósos)
Further reading
- “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νόσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νόσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- “νόσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3554 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- νόσος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- affection idem, page 16.
- affliction idem, page 17.
- ailment idem, page 21.
- canker idem, page 110.
- complaint idem, page 151.
- contagion idem, page 166.
- contamination idem, page 166.
- disease idem, page 232.
- disorder idem, page 235.
- epidemic idem, page 279.
- illness idem, page 416.
- infection idem, page 437.
- infirmity idem, page 438.
- malady idem, page 509.
- miasma idem, page 527.
- murrain idem, page 547.
- pest idem, page 609.
- pestilence idem, page 609.
- plague idem, page 616.
- plague-spot idem, page 616.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- sickness idem, page 772.
- taint idem, page 852.
- unhealthiness idem, page 921.
- “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos).
Noun
νόσος • (nósos) f (plural νόσοι)
- (medicine) disease
- Synonyms: αρρώστια (arróstia), ασθένεια (asthéneia), πάθηση (páthisi)
Declension
declension of νόσος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | νόσος • | νόσοι • |
genitive | νόσου • | νόσων • |
accusative | νόσο • | νόσους • |
vocative | νόσε • νόσο • | νόσοι • |
Related terms
- ανοσήλευτος (anosíleftos, “not hospitalised, untreated”, adjective)
- ανοσία f (anosía, “immunity”)
- νοσηλευτής m (nosileftís, “male nurse”)
- νοσηλεύτρια f (nosiléftria, “nurse”)
- νοσοκόμα f (nosokóma, “nurse”)
- νοσοκομείο n (nosokomeío, “hospital”)
- νοσοκόμος m (nosokómos, “male nurse”)