νόσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νοῦσος (noûsos) — Epic, Ionic

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Willi's derivation from a putative Proto-Indo-European *n-h₁osu-o-s (“not good”), from *n̥- (“not, un-”) + a u-stem of the o-grade of *h₁es- (“to be”), and subsequent comparison of Hittite 𒀀𒀸𒋗𒍑 (a-aš-šu-uš, “good”), suffers from phonological irregularities.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nó.sos/ → /ˈno.sos/ → /ˈno.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nó.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈno.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈno.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈno.sos/

Noun

νόσος • (nósos) f (genitive νόσου); second declension

1. sickness, disease, illness
2. plague
3. misery, suffering, distress
4. madness, vice
5. bane

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ νόσος; τῆς νόσου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νόσος hē nósos	τὼ νόσω tṑ nósō	αἱ νόσοι hai nósoi
Genitive	τῆς νόσου tês nósou	τοῖν νόσοιν toîn nósoin	τῶν νόσων tôn nósōn
Dative	τῇ νόσῳ têi nósōi	τοῖν νόσοιν toîn nósoin	ταῖς νόσοις taîs nósois
Accusative	τὴν νόσον tḕn nóson	τὼ νόσω tṑ nósō	τᾱ̀ς νόσους tā̀s nósous
Vocative	νόσε nóse	νόσω nósō	νόσοι nósoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: noso-
• Greek: νόσος (nósos)

Further reading

• “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νόσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νόσος 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
• “νόσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3554 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• νόσος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affection idem, page 16.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • ailment idem, page 21.
  • canker idem, page 110.
  • complaint idem, page 151.
  • contagion idem, page 166.
  • contamination idem, page 166.
  • disease idem, page 232.
  • disorder idem, page 235.
  • epidemic idem, page 279.
  • illness idem, page 416.
  • infection idem, page 437.
  • infirmity idem, page 438.
  • malady idem, page 509.
  • miasma idem, page 527.
  • murrain idem, page 547.
  • pest idem, page 609.
  • pestilence idem, page 609.
  • plague idem, page 616.
  • plague-spot idem, page 616.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • sickness idem, page 772.
  • taint idem, page 852.
  • unhealthiness idem, page 921.
• “νόσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νόσος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.sos/

Noun

νόσος • (nósos) f (plural νόσοι)

1. (medicine) disease

   Synonyms: αρρώστια (arróstia), ασθένεια (asthéneia), πάθηση (páthisi)

Declension

Declension of νόσος

	singular	plural
nominative	νόσος •	νόσοι •
genitive	νόσου •	νόσων •
accusative	νόσο •	νόσους •
vocative	νόσε •,  νόσο •	νόσοι •

Related terms

• ανοσήλευτος (anosíleftos, “not hospitalised, untreated”, adjective)
• ανοσία f (anosía, “immunity”)
• νοσηλευτής m (nosileftís, “male nurse”)
• νοσηλεύτρια f (nosiléftria, “nurse”)
• νοσοκόμα f (nosokóma, “nurse”)
• νοσοκομείο n (nosokomeío, “hospital”)
• νοσοκόμος m (nosokómos, “male nurse”)

 

Further reading

• νόσος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language