νηδύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to ὀσφῦς (osphûs), δελφύς (delphús) and ἰξύς (ixús). The etymology remains unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛː.dýs/ → /niˈðys/ → /niˈðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛː.dýs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne̝ˈdys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈðys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈðys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈðis/

Noun

νηδῠ́ς • (nēdús) f (genitive νηδῠ́ος); third declension

1. (anatomy) any of the cavities in the body, hence:
   1. stomach
   2. belly, paunch
   3. intestine, bowels
   4. womb, uterus

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ νηδῠ́ς; τῆς νηδῠός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νηδῠ́ς hē nēdús	τὼ νηδῠ́ε tṑ nēdúe	αἱ νηδῠ́ες hai nēdúes
Genitive	τῆς νηδῠός tês nēduós	τοῖν νηδῠοῖν toîn nēduoîn	τῶν νηδῠῶν tôn nēduôn
Dative	τῇ νηδῠῐ̈́ têi nēduḯ	τοῖν νηδῠοῖν toîn nēduoîn	ταῖς νηδῠσῐ́ / νηδῠσῐ́ν taîs nēdusí(n)
Accusative	τὴν νηδῠ́ν tḕn nēdún	τὼ νηδῠ́ε tṑ nēdúe	τᾱ̀ς νηδῦς / νηδῠ́ᾰς tā̀s nēdûs / nēdúas
Vocative	νηδῠ́ nēdú	νηδῠ́ε nēdúe	νηδῠ́ες nēdúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• νηδύα (nēdúa)

Further reading

• “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νηδύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νηδύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νηδύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1015