Ancient Greek

Adjective

νόθος • ‎(nóthos) m ‎(feminine νόθη, neuter νόθον); first/second declension or
νόθος • ‎(nóthos) m, f ‎(neuter νόθον); second declension

1. bastard, baseborn (born of a slave or concubine)
   1. (of animals) crossbred
2. (generally, of persons and things) spurious, counterfeit, supposititious
   1. (of literary works) spurious

Declension

Derived terms

• νόθως ‎(nóthōs)

Antonyms

• γνήσιος ‎(gnḗsios)

Noun

νόθος • ‎(nóthos) m ‎(genitive νόθου); second declension

1. (at Athens) a child of a citizen father and an alien mother
2. (plural only, in Egypt) a class of temple-attendants

Declension

Descendants

• English: nothogenus, nothospecies
• Greek: νόθος ‎(nóthos)

References

• νόθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νόθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νόθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «νόθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «νόθος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• νόθος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3541”, 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.
  • bastard idem, page 64.
  • counterfeit idem, page 177.
  • false idem, page 304.
  • illegitimate idem, page 414.
  • misbegotten idem, page 532.
  • spurious idem, page 806.
  • unlawful idem, page 924.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόθος ‎(nóthos, “bastard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.θos/
• Hyphenation: νό‧θος

Adjective

νόθος • ‎(nóthos) m ‎(feminine νόθα or νόθη, neuter νόθο)

1. illegitimate, bastard
2. mongrel
3. false, spurious

Declension