νοσταλγία
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from French nostalgie,[1] from New Latin nostalgia;[2] a neoclassical compound[3] coined from Ancient Greek νόστ(ος) (nóst(os), “journey”) + ἄλγ(ος) (álg(os), “pain”) + suffix -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]νοσταλγία • (nostalgía) f (usually uncountable, plural νοσταλγίες)
- nostalgia, homesickness
- nostalgia (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
Declension
[edit]Usually in the singular.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | νοσταλγία (nostalgía) | νοσταλγίες (nostalgíes) |
| genitive | νοσταλγίας (nostalgías) | νοσταλγιών (nostalgión) |
| accusative | νοσταλγία (nostalgía) | νοσταλγίες (nostalgíes) |
| vocative | νοσταλγία (nostalgía) | νοσταλγίες (nostalgíes) |
Derived terms
[edit]- νοσταλγικός (nostalgikós, “nostalgic”)
- νοσταλγώ (nostalgó, “to be nostalgic”)
- νοσταλγός m or f (nostalgós, “person with nostalgia”)
References
[edit]- ^ νοσταλγία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- ^ Etymology and history of “nostalgie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ νοσταλγία - νοσταλγία - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias [Lexicology Centre], 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.
His term concerning morphology of the neoclassical compound, is ελληνογενής ξένος όρος [Hellenogenous foreign term]