νεφέλη

See also: Νεφέλη

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 7 June 2023

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ-el-h₂ (“cloud”). Related to νέφος (néphos, “cloud”), Latin nebula (“fog, cloud”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.pʰé.lɛː/ → /neˈɸe.li/ → /neˈfe.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.pʰé.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈpʰe.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈɸe.li/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/

Noun

νεφέλη • (nephélē) f (genitive νεφέλης); first declension

1. cloud, mass of clouds
2. cloud in urine
3. cloud on a mirror
4. (in the plural) fine bird-net
5. (alchemy) sublimate

Declension

First declension of ἡ νεφέλη; τῆς νεφέλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νεφέλη hē nephélē	τὼ νεφέλᾱ tṑ nephélā	αἱ νεφέλαι hai nephélai
Genitive	τῆς νεφέλης tês nephélēs	τοῖν νεφέλαιν toîn nephélain	τῶν νεφελῶν tôn nephelôn
Dative	τῇ νεφέλῃ tēî nephélēi	τοῖν νεφέλαιν toîn nephélain	ταῖς νεφέλαις taîs nephélais
Accusative	τὴν νεφέλην tḕn nephélēn	τὼ νεφέλᾱ tṑ nephélā	τᾱ̀ς νεφέλᾱς tā̀s nephélās
Vocative	νεφέλη nephélē	νεφέλᾱ nephélā	νεφέλαι nephélai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐπινέφελος (epinéphelos)
• νεφεληγερής (nephelēgerḗs)
• νεφεληδόν (nephelēdón)
• νεφελίζω (nephelízō)
• νεφέλιον (nephélion)
• νεφελοειδής (nepheloeidḗs)
• νεφελοκένταυρος (nephelokéntauros)
• Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugía)
• νεφελομιγής (nephelomigḗs)
• νεφελόομαι (nephelóomai)
• νεφελοστάσια (nephelostásia)
• νεφελοφόρος (nephelophóros)
• νεφελώδης (nephelṓdēs)
• νεφελωτός (nephelōtós)
• ὑπερνέφελος (hupernéphelos)

Descendants

• Greek: νεφέλη (neféli)

Further reading

• “νεφέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νεφέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νεφέλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “νεφέλη” 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
• νεφέλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3507 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• νεφέλη 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.
  • cloud idem, page 139.
  • fog idem, page 331.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/

Noun

νεφέλη • (neféli) f (plural νεφέλες)

1. cloud

Declension

Declension of νεφέλη

	singular	plural
nominative	νεφέλη (neféli)	νεφέλες (neféles)
genitive	νεφέλης (nefélis)	νεφελών (nefelón)
accusative	νεφέλη (neféli)	νεφέλες (neféles)
vocative	νεφέλη (neféli)	νεφέλες (neféles)

Synonyms

• νέφος n (néfos)
• σύννεφο n (sýnnefo)

Further reading

• Νεφέλη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el