νέφος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *népʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognates include νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), Latin nebula (“fog, cloud”), Proto-Slavic *nebo (“heaven, sky”), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas, “sky”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /né.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈne.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈne.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈne.fos/
Noun
[edit]νέφος • (néphos) n (genitive νέφεος or νέφους); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ νέφος tò néphos |
τὼ νέφει tṑ néphei |
τᾰ̀ νέφη tà néphē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νέφους toû néphous |
τοῖν νεφοῖν toîn nephoîn |
τῶν νεφῶν tôn nephôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νέφει tôi néphei |
τοῖν νεφοῖν toîn nephoîn |
τοῖς νέφεσῐ / νέφεσῐν toîs néphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ νέφος tò néphos |
τὼ νέφει tṑ néphei |
τᾰ̀ νέφη tà néphē | ||||||||||
Vocative | νέφος néphos |
νέφει néphei |
νέφη néphē | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | νέφος néphos |
νέφει / νέφεε néphei / néphee |
νέφεᾰ néphea | ||||||||||
Genitive | νέφεος / νέφευς népheos / népheus |
νεφέοιν nephéoin |
νεφέων nephéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | νέφει / νέφεῐ̈ néphei / népheï |
νεφέοιν nephéoin |
νέφεσσῐν / νεφέεσσῐ / νεφέεσσῐν / νέφεσῐ / νέφεσῐν néphessin / nephéessi(n) / néphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | νέφος néphos |
νέφει / νέφεε néphei / néphee |
νέφεᾰ néphea | ||||||||||
Vocative | νέφος néphos |
νέφει / νέφεε néphei / néphee |
νέφεᾰ néphea | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
[edit]- κελαινεφής (kelainephḗs)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: νέφος n (néfos)
- ⇒ Greek: σύννεφο (sýnnefo)
- →⇒ English: nephology, nephoscope
References
[edit]- “νέφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νέφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νέφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νέφος 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
- νέφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “νέφος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3509 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]νέφος • (néfos) n (plural νέφη)
- smog
- Synonym: αιθαλομίχλη (aithalomíchli)
- (meteorology) cloud
- (computing) cloud
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | νέφος (néfos) | νέφη (néfi) |
genitive | νέφους (néfous) | νεφών (nefón) |
accusative | νέφος (néfos) | νέφη (néfi) |
vocative | νέφος (néfos) | νέφη (néfi) |
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- ομίχλη f (omíchli, “fog”)
Derived terms
[edit]- ανέφελος (anéfelos, “cloudless”, adjective)
- αντινεφικός (antinefikós, “antismog”, adjective)
- νεφοσκεπής (nefoskepís)
- ραδιενεργό νέφος n (radienergó néfos, “radioactive fallout”)
Related terms
[edit]- νεφέλη f (neféli)
- νεφελοειδής (nefeloeidís)
- νεφελώδης (nefelódis)
- νεφέλωμα n (neféloma)
- νέφωση f (néfosi)
- συννεφιά f (synnefiá)
- συννεφιάζω (synnefiázo)
- συννέφιασμα n (synnéfiasma)
- συννεφιασμένος (synnefiasménos)
- σύννεφο n (sýnnefo)
- συννεφόκαμα f (synnefókama)
References
[edit]- ^ νέφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
Further reading
[edit]- νέφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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