νήδυμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Rebracketing of ἥδυμος (hḗdumos, “sweet, pleasant”), from the root of ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.dy.mos/ → /ˈni.ðy.mos/ → /ˈni.ði.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nɛ̌ː.dy.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈne̝.dy.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ðy.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ðy.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ði.mos/

Adjective

νήδῠμος • (nḗdumos) m or f (neuter νήδῠμον); second declension

1. sweet, pleasant, delightful (epithet of sleep in Homer; used with other nouns by later writers)

Declension

Second declension of νήδῠμος; νήδῠμον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		νήδῠμος nḗdumos	νήδῠμον nḗdumon		νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō	νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō		νήδῠμοι nḗdumoi	νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma
Genitive		νηδῠ́μου nēdúmou	νηδῠ́μου nēdúmou		νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin	νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin		νηδῠ́μων nēdúmōn	νηδῠ́μων nēdúmōn
Dative		νηδῠ́μῳ nēdúmōi	νηδῠ́μῳ nēdúmōi		νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin	νηδῠ́μοιν nēdúmoin		νηδῠ́μοις nēdúmois	νηδῠ́μοις nēdúmois
Accusative		νήδῠμον nḗdumon	νήδῠμον nḗdumon		νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō	νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō		νηδῠ́μους nēdúmous	νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma
Vocative		νήδῠμε nḗdume	νήδῠμον nḗdumon		νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō	νηδῠ́μω nēdúmō		νήδῠμοι nḗdumoi	νήδῠμᾰ nḗduma
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		νηδῠ́μως nēdúmōs			νηδῠμώτερος nēdumṓteros			νηδῠμώτᾰτος nēdumṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νήδυμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νήδυμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νήδυμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “νήδυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press