νοῦς

See also: νους

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nûːs/ → /nus/ → /nus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /nus/

Noun

νοῦς • (noûs) m (genitive νοῦ); second declension (Attic)

1. contracted form of νόος (nóos)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ νοῦς; τοῦ νοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νοῦς ho noûs	τὼ νώ tṑ nṓ	οἱ νοῖ hoi noî
Genitive	τοῦ νοῦ toû noû	τοῖν νοῖν toîn noîn	τῶν νῶν tôn nôn
Dative	τῷ νῷ tôi nôi	τοῖν νοῖν toîn noîn	τοῖς νοῖς toîs noîs
Accusative	τὸν νοῦν tòn noûn	τὼ νώ tṑ nṓ	τοὺς νοῦς toùs noûs
Vocative	νοῦ noû	νώ nṓ	νοῖ noî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun νοῦς

• νοῦς ὑγιής ἐν σώματι ὑγιεῖ (noûs hugiḗs en sṓmati hugieî)

References

• “νοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νοῦς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νοῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3563 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.
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