νοσταλγία

Greek

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “journey”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested.

Noun

νοσταλγία • (nostalgía) f (uncountable)

1. nostalgia, homesickness
2. nostalgia (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Declension

  νοσταλγία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	νοσταλγία •
genitive	νοσταλγίας •
accusative	νοσταλγία •
vocative	νοσταλγία •
νοσταλγίες is a (possibly) ungrammatical plural

Derived terms

• νοσταλγικός (nostalgikós, “nostalgic”)
• νοσταλγώ (nostalgó, “to be nostalgic”)
• νοσταλγός m or f (nostalgós, “person with nostalgia”)

References

• νοσταλγία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• “nostalgie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.