Ancient Greek

Noun

νῆσος • ‎(nêsos) f ‎(genitive νήσου); second declension

1. island

Inflection

Derived terms

• Δωδεκάνησα ‎(Dōdekánēsa)
• νησαῖος ‎(nēsaîos)
• νησίδιον ‎(nēsídion)
• νησίς ‎(nēsís)
• νησιώτης ‎(nēsiṓtēs)
• νησιωτικός ‎(nēsiōtikós)
• νησιῶτις ‎(nēsiôtis)
• Πελοπόννησος ‎(Pelopónnēsos)
• Χερσόνησος ‎(Khersónēsos)
• χερσόνησος ‎(khersónēsos)

Descendants

• English: Indonesia, Macaronesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
• Greek: νήσος ‎(nísos), νησί ‎(nisí)
• Latin: nesus

References

• νῆσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νῆσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νῆσος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «νῆσος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «νῆσος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3520”, 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, page 460
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • island idem, page 460.