νόος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of uncertain etymology, perhaps from νέω (néō, “I spin”), here meaning “to spin the thread of the mind”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nó.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.os/
Noun
νόος • (nóos) m (genitive νόου); second declension
- mind
- perception, sense
- mind as used in feeling, the heart, soul
- the mind as used in resolving and purposing, will
- an act of mind
- the sense or meaning of a word
- (in Attic philosophy) intelligence, intellect, reason
- (as named by Anaxagoras) the principle which acts on elementary particles of matter
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νόος ho nóos |
τὼ νόω tṑ nóō |
οἱ νόοι hoi nóoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νόου toû nóou |
τοῖν νόοιν toîn nóoin |
τῶν νόων tôn nóōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νόῳ tôi nóōi |
τοῖν νόοιν toîn nóoin |
τοῖς νόοις toîs nóois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νόον tòn nóon |
τὼ νόω tṑ nóō |
τοὺς νόους toùs nóous | ||||||||||
Vocative | νόε nóe |
νόω nóō |
νόοι nóoi | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νόος ho nóos |
— | οἱ νόες hoi nóes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νόος toû nóos |
τοῖν νόοιν toîn nóoin |
τῶν νόων tôn nóōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νοΐ tôi noḯ |
τοῖν νόοιν toîn nóoin |
τοῖς νόσῐ / νόσῐν toîs nósi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νόᾰ tòn nóa |
— | τοὺς νόᾰς toùs nóas | ||||||||||
Vocative | νόε nóe |
— | νόες nóes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “νόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νόος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νόος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “νόος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter