Νῦσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nŷː.sa/ → /ˈny.sa/ → /ˈni.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nŷː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈny.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈny.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈny.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sa/

Proper noun

Νῦσᾰ • (Nûsa) f (genitive Νῡ́σης); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Nysa (mountainous land where the Hyades raised the infant god Dionysus)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Νῦσᾰ; τῆς Νῡ́σης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νῦσᾰ hē Nûsa
Genitive	τῆς Νῡ́σης tês Nū́sēs
Dative	τῇ Νῡ́σῃ têi Nū́sēi
Accusative	τὴν Νῦσᾰν tḕn Nûsan
Vocative	Νῦσᾰ Nûsa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Νῡσαῖοι (Nūsaîoi)
• Νῡσᾱΐς (Nūsāḯs)
• Νῡσεύς (Nūseús)
• Νῡσήϊος (Nūsḗïos)
• Νῡ́σῐος (Nū́sios)

Descendants

• Greek: Νύσα (Nýsa)
• Latin: Nȳsa

References

• “Νῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Νῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018

Further reading

• Nysa (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia