νειόθι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare νέατος (néatos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /neː.ó.tʰi/ → /niˈo.θi/ → /niˈo.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /neː.ó.tʰi/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /niˈo.tʰi/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈo.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈo.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈo.θi/

Adverb

νειόθῐ • (neióthi)

1. (Ionic) at the bottom
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 567:

     δάκεν δέ ἑ νειόθι θυμόν, Ζῆν’ ὑψιβρεμέτην

     dáken dé he neióthi thumón, Zên’ hupsibremétēn

     And Zeus, who thunders on high, was stung at the bottom of his heart.

2. (Ionic) under, beneath
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.355

Related terms

• νειόθεν (neióthen)

References

• “νειόθι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νειόθι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νειόθι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νειόθι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νειόθι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963