νεκάς

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 13 January 2019

Etymology

νέκυς (nékus, “corpse”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás, “group of”, noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.kás/ → /neˈkas/ → /neˈkas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.kás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈkas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈkas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈkas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈkas/

Noun

νεκᾰ́ς • (nekás) f (genitive νεκᾰ́δος); third declension

1. A pile of corpses.
2. A line or row of soldiers.
3. (in the plural) The dead.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ νεκᾰ́ς; τῆς νεκᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νεκᾰ́ς hē nekás	τὼ νεκᾰ́δε tṑ nekáde	αἱ νεκᾰ́δες hai nekádes
Genitive	τῆς νεκᾰ́δος tês nekádos	τοῖν νεκᾰ́δοιν toîn nekádoin	τῶν νεκᾰ́δων tôn nekádōn
Dative	τῇ νεκᾰ́δῐ têi nekádi	τοῖν νεκᾰ́δοιν toîn nekádoin	ταῖς νεκᾰ́σῐ / νεκᾰ́σῐν taîs nekási(n)
Accusative	τὴν νεκᾰ́δᾰ tḕn nekáda	τὼ νεκᾰ́δε tṑ nekáde	τᾱ̀ς νεκᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s nekádas
Vocative	νεκᾰ́ς nekás	νεκᾰ́δε nekáde	νεκᾰ́δες nekádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

References

• “νεκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νεκάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νεκάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νεκάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “νεκάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter