Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νεηνῐ́ης ‎(neēníēs) Ionic, Epic

Noun

νεᾱνῐ́ᾱς • ‎(neāníās) m ‎(genitive νεᾱνῐ́ου); first declension

1. young man, youth
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.278

     νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώς

     in the likeness of a young man

   1. young, active; hot-headed, headstrong
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1041

        νεανίας γενοῦ ἔργοισι

        be young in action

      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 580

        νῦν δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ εἶ νεανίας

        As yet you are young and rash.

Inflection

Related terms

• νεᾱνῐείᾱ ‎(neānieíā)
• νεᾱνῐεύομαι ‎(neānieúomai)
• νεᾱνίζω ‎(neānízō)

References

• νεανίας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «νεανίας» 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
• νεανίας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3494”, 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.
  • gallant idem, page 352.
  • spark idem, page 798.
  • swain idem, page 846.
  • young idem, page 997.
  • youth idem, page 997.