Ancient Greek

Noun

νεφρός • ‎(nephrós) m ‎(genitive νεφροῦ); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) kidney
2. (euphemistic) testicle
3. mind

Inflection

Derived terms

• νεφρῖτις ‎(nephrîtis)

Descendants

• English: nephro-
• Greek: νεφρό ‎(nefró)

References

• νεφρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νεφρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «νεφρός» 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
• “G3510”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «νεφρός» 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
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill