νησιώτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

νῆσος (nêsos) +‎ -ιώτης (-iṓtēs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛː.si.ɔ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /ni.siˈo.tis/ → /ni.siˈo.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛː.si.ɔ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ne̝.siˈo.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ni.siˈo.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ni.siˈo.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ni.siˈo.tis/

Noun

νησῐώτης • (nēsiṓtēs) m (genitive νησῐώτου); first declension

1. islander (person who lives on an island)

Declension

First declension of ὁ νησῐώτης; τοῦ νησῐώτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νησῐώτης ho nēsiṓtēs	τὼ νησῐώτᾱ tṑ nēsiṓtā	οἱ νησῐῶται hoi nēsiôtai
Genitive	τοῦ νησῐώτου toû nēsiṓtou	τοῖν νησῐώταιν toîn nēsiṓtain	τῶν νησῐωτῶν tôn nēsiōtôn
Dative	τῷ νησῐώτῃ tôi nēsiṓtēi	τοῖν νησῐώταιν toîn nēsiṓtain	τοῖς νησῐώταις toîs nēsiṓtais
Accusative	τὸν νησῐώτην tòn nēsiṓtēn	τὼ νησῐώτᾱ tṑ nēsiṓtā	τοὺς νησῐώτᾱς toùs nēsiṓtās
Vocative	νησῐῶτᾰ nēsiôta	νησῐώτᾱ nēsiṓtā	νησῐῶται nēsiôtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: νησιώτης (nisiótis)
• → Latin: nēsiōtēs

Further reading

• νησιώτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “νησιώτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • insular idem, page 448.
  • island idem, page 460.
  • islander idem, page 460.