Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νεῖος ‎(neîos) (Ionic)

Adjective

νέος • ‎(néos) m ‎(feminine νέα, neuter νέον); first/second declension

1. young
2. (pertaining to young people) youthful
3. new, fresh
4. (euphemistic, especially in comparative) Unexpected, strange, evil.

Inflection

Descendants

• English: neo-
• Greek: νέος ‎(néos)

References

• νέος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νέος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νέος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «νέος» 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
• «νέος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• νέος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3501”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boyish idem, page 92.
  • childish idem, page 130.
  • curious idem, page 190.
  • exceptional idem, page 288.
  • extraordinary idem, page 297.
  • fresh idem, page 344.
  • infantile idem, page 437.
  • marvellous idem, page 516.
  • minor idem, page 531.
  • modern idem, page 538.
  • new idem, page 556.
  • novel idem, page 561.
  • peculiar idem, page 601.
  • recent idem, page 678.
  • strange idem, page 823.
  • surprising idem, page 844.
  • unaccustomed idem, page 906.
  • uncommon idem, page 910.
  • unfamiliar idem, page 917.
  • unknown idem, page 923.
  • unusual idem, page 935.
  • unwonted idem, page 937.
  • wonderful idem, page 987.
  • young idem, page 997.
  • youthful idem, page 997.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νέος ‎(néos, “young”), from Proto-Hellenic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *néwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈne̞o̞s]
• Hyphenation: νέ‧ος

Adjective

νέος • ‎(néos) m ‎(feminine νέα, neuter νέο)

1. young, youthful
2. modern, new

Declension