νήθουσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a Pre-Greek word in view of the suffix; see ἄγχουσα (ánkhousa), αἴθουσα (aíthousa) and κάδουσα (kádousa).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.tʰuː.sa/ → /ˈni.θu.sa/ → /ˈni.θu.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.tʰuː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈne̝.tʰu.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.θu.sa/

Noun

νήθουσᾰ • (nḗthousă) f (genitive νηθούσης); first declension

1. unknown kind of plant

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νήθουσᾰ; τῆς νηθούσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νήθουσᾰ hē nḗthousă	τὼ νηθούσᾱ tṑ nēthoúsā	αἱ νήθουσαι hai nḗthousai
Genitive	τῆς νηθούσης tês nēthoúsēs	τοῖν νηθούσαιν toîn nēthoúsain	τῶν νηθουσῶν tôn nēthousôn
Dative	τῇ νηθούσῃ têi nēthoúsēi	τοῖν νηθούσαιν toîn nēthoúsain	ταῖς νηθούσαις taîs nēthoúsais
Accusative	τὴν νήθουσᾰν tḕn nḗthousăn	τὼ νηθούσᾱ tṑ nēthoúsā	τᾱ̀ς νηθούσᾱς tā̀s nēthoúsās
Vocative	νήθουσᾰ nḗthousă	νηθούσᾱ nēthoúsā	νήθουσαι nḗthousai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νήθουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νήθουσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1015