νίκη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The origin is uncertain. Perhaps of Proto-Indo-European origin and cognate with νεῖκος (neîkos), Lithuanian ap-nìkti (“to attack”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nǐː.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈni.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.ci/
Noun
νῑ́κη • (nī́kē) f (genitive νῑ́κης); first declension
- the act of winning: victory, success Lua error in Module:object_usage at line 35: Parameter "means" is not used by this template.
- things won in victory, fruits of victory
- the upper hand, advantage
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νῑ́κη hē nī́kē |
τὼ νῑ́κᾱ tṑ nī́kā |
αἱ νῖκαι hai nîkai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νῑ́κης tês nī́kēs |
τοῖν νῑ́καιν toîn nī́kain |
τῶν νῑκῶν tôn nīkôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νῑ́κῃ têi nī́kēi |
τοῖν νῑ́καιν toîn nī́kain |
ταῖς νῑ́καις taîs nī́kais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νῑ́κην tḕn nī́kēn |
τὼ νῑ́κᾱ tṑ nī́kā |
τᾱ̀ς νῑ́κᾱς tā̀s nī́kās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῑ́κη nī́kē |
νῑ́κᾱ nī́kā |
νῖκαι nîkai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Given names derived from νίκη (níkē)
- Ἀγλαονίκη (Aglaoníkē)
- Ἀνδρόνικος (Andrónikos)
- Βερενίκη (Bereníkē)
- Δημονίκη (Dēmoníkē)
- Ἐτεόνικος (Eteónikos)
- Εὐνίκη (Euníkē)
- Νίκανδρος (Níkandros)
- Νίκη (Níkē)
- Νικήρατος (Nikḗratos)
- Νικίππη (Nikíppē)
- Νικόδημος (Nikódēmos)
- Νικοκλῆς (Nikoklês)
- Νικόλαος (Nikólaos)
- Νικόλας (Nikólas)
- Νικολέτα (Nikoléta)
- Νικολέττα (Nikolétta)
- Νικολής (Nikolḗs)
- Νικόμαχος (Nikómakhos)
- Νικομήδης (Nikomḗdēs)
- Νίκος (Níkos)
- Νικόστρατος (Nikóstratos)
- Στρᾰτονῑ́κη (Stratonī́kē)
- Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)
Descendants
References
- “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νίκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νίκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3529 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- conquest idem, page 161.
- mastery idem, page 517.
- superiority idem, page 839.
- triumph idem, page 896.
- victory idem, page 951.
- 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
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
νίκη • (níki) f (plural νίκες)
Declension
Declension of νίκη
Derived terms
- νικώ (nikó, “to defeat”)
- νικητής m (nikitís, “winner, victor”)
- νικήτρια f (nikítria, “winner, victor”)
- νικηφόρος (nikifóros, “victorious”)
- νικητήριος (nikitírios, “winning”)
Categories:
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- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
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- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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