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νόστος
νόστος
Ancient Greek
Noun
νόστος • (nóstos) m (genitive νόστου); second declension
- the act of reaching a place: journey, arrival
- the act of returning or going back
- (Epic) returning home, homecoming, a safe journey home
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ νόστος | τὼ νόστω | οἱ νόστοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νόστου | τοῖν νόστοιν | τῶν νόστων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νόστῳ | τοῖν νόστοιν | τοῖς νόστοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν νόστον | τὼ νόστω | τοὺς νόστους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νόστε | νόστω | νόστοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
Terms derived from νόστος (nóstos)
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References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 766
- νόστος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νόστος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νόστος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «νόστος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «νόστος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- νόστος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- home-coming idem, page 404.
- return idem, page 708.