Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νούσημᾰ ‎(noúsēma) Ionic

Noun

νόσημᾰ • ‎(nósēma) n ‎(genitive νοσήμᾰτος); third declension

1. sickness, disease, plague, affliction
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 755

     δεινόν γε τοὐπίσαγμα τοῦ νοσήματος.

     Frightful must be the burden of your illness!

2. (figuratively)
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 227

     ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι

     For it is a disease that is somehow inherent in tyranny, to have no faith in friends.

Inflection

Derived terms

• νοσημᾰτῐκός ‎(nosēmatikós)
• νοσημᾰ́τῐον ‎(nosēmátion)
• νοσημᾰτώδης ‎(nosēmatṓdēs)

Descendants

• Latin: nosema (borrowed)

References

• νόσημα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νόσημα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «νόσημα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G3553”, 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, pages 232, 616