Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
νέκῡς, νέκῠς • (nékūs, nékus) m (genitive νέκῠος); third declension
- corpse, dead person
- (in the plural) spirits of the dead
- (attributive) dead, deceased
Declension
Third declension of νέκῠς, νέκῠος
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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ὁ νέκῠς
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τὼ νέκῠε
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οἱ νέκῠες
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| Genitive
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τοῦ νέκῠος
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τοῖν νεκῠ́οιν
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τῶν νεκῠ́ων
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| Dative
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τῷ νέκῠϊ
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τοῖν νεκῠ́οιν
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τοῖς νέκῠσῐ(ν)
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| Accusative
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τὸν νέκῠν
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τὼ νέκῠε
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τοὺς νέκῡς
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| Vocative
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νέκῠ
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νέκῠε
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νέκῠες
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Third declension of
νέκῡς,
νέκῠος (
Homeric)
| Case / #
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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ὁ νέκῡς
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τὼ νέκῠε
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οἱ νέκῠες
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| Genitive
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τοῦ νέκῠος
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τοῖν νεκῠ́οιῐν
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τῶν νεκῠ́ων
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| Dative
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τῷ νέκῠϊ
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τοῖν νεκῠ́οιῐν
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τοῖς νεκῠ́εσσῐ(ν) / νέκῠσσῐ(ν) / νέκῡσῐ(ν)
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| Accusative
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τὸν νέκῡν
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τὼ νέκῠε
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τοὺς νέκῡς / νέκῠᾰς
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| Vocative
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νέκῡ
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νέκῠε
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νέκῠες
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Related terms
Derived terms
- νεκυαγωγή (nekuagōgḗ)
- νεκυαγωγός (nekuagōgós)
- νεκυάμβατος (nekuámbatos)
- νεκυδαίμων (nekudaímōn)
- νεκύδαλος (nekúdalos)
- νεκυηγός (nekuēgós)
- νεκυηδόν (nekuēdón)
- νεκυηπόλος (nekuēpólos)
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- νέκυια (nékuia)
- νεκυϊκός (nekuïkós)
- νεκυϊσμός (nekuïsmós)
- νεκυοδαίμων (nekuodaímōn)
- νεκυομαντεία (nekuomanteía)
- νεκυομαντεῖον (nekuomanteîon)
- νεκυομαντικός (nekuomantikós)
- νεκυόμαντις (nekuómantis)
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- νεκυοπομπός (nekuopompós)
- νεκυοστόλος (nekuostólos)
- νεκύσια (nekúsia)
- Νεκύσιος (Nekúsios)
- νεκυσσόος (nekussóos)
- νεκυώριον (nekuṓrion)
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References
- νέκυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νέκυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νέκυς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «νέκυς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «νέκυς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- νέκυς 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.