νυχθήμερον

See also: νυχθημερόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νύξ (núx, “night”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nykʰ.tʰɛ̌ː.me.ron/ → /nyxˈθi.me.ron/ → /nixˈθi.me.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nykʰ.tʰɛ̌ː.me.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /nykʰˈtʰe̝.me.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /nyxˈθi.me.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nyxˈθi.me.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /nixˈθi.me.ron/

Noun

νῠχθήμερον • (nŭkhthḗmeron) n (genitive νῠχθημέρου); second declension

1. a day and night, the space of 24 hours
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 11:25:

     τρὶς ἐραβδίσθην, ἅπαξ ἐλιθάσθην, τρὶς ἐναυάγησα, νυχθήμερον ἐν τῷ βυθῷ πεποίηκα·

     trìs erabdísthēn, hápax elithásthēn, trìs enauágēsa, nukhthḗmeron en tôi buthôi pepoíēka;

     I was thrice beaten with a rod, once stoned, thrice shipwrecked, and spent a day and night in the sea.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νῠχθήμερον; τοῦ νῠχθημέρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νῠχθήμερον tò nŭkhthḗmeron	τὼ νῠχθημέρω tṑ nŭkhthēmérō	τᾰ̀ νῠχθήμερᾰ tằ nŭkhthḗmeră
Genitive	τοῦ νῠχθημέρου toû nŭkhthēmérou	τοῖν νῠχθημέροιν toîn nŭkhthēméroin	τῶν νῠχθημέρων tôn nŭkhthēmérōn
Dative	τῷ νῠχθημέρῳ tôi nŭkhthēmérōi	τοῖν νῠχθημέροιν toîn nŭkhthēméroin	τοῖς νῠχθημέροις toîs nŭkhthēmérois
Accusative	τὸ νῠχθήμερον tò nŭkhthḗmeron	τὼ νῠχθημέρω tṑ nŭkhthēmérō	τᾰ̀ νῠχθήμερᾰ tằ nŭkhthḗmeră
Vocative	νῠχθήμερον nŭkhthḗmeron	νῠχθημέρω nŭkhthēmérō	νῠχθήμερᾰ nŭkhthḗmeră
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: νυχθημερόν (nychthimerón, “for a day and a night”, adverb)

Further reading

• “νυχθήμερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νυχθήμερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νυχθήμερον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3574 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible