νυνί

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Strengthened form of νῦν (nûn, “now”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nyː.nǐː/ → /nyˈni/ → /niˈni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nyː.nǐː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nyˈni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈni/

Adverb

νυνί • (nuní)

1. now, at this moment
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 325
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 290
   • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 41
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Hero 27
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 14
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Archidamus 7
   • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Cleonymus 20
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 25
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 35
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.92
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 129
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 306
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 448
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1357
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 190.16
   • 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 45.3

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively with the present tense.

References

• “νυνί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νυνί”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νυνί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3570 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.
  • as idem, page 42.
  • now idem, page 562.