οὐδείς

See also: ουδείς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὐθείς (outheís)

Etymology

From οὐδέ (oudé, “and not, not even”) + εἷς (heîs, “one”). Sometimes incorrectly stated as from οὐ (ou, “no, not”) + δείς (deís, “no one, nothing”), as a result of the later variant, οὐθείς (outheís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.děːs/ → /uˈðis/ → /uˈðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.děːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈdis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈðis/

Pronoun

οὐδείς • (oudeís)

1. no one, nobody, none, nothing, no

Inflection

First and third declension of οὐδείς, οὐδεμίᾰ, οὐδέν

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		οὐδείς oudeís	οὐδεμίᾰ oudemía	οὐδέν oudén		οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne		οὐδένες oudénes	οὐδεμίαι oudemíai	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Genitive		οὐδενός oudenós	οὐδεμιᾶς oudemiâs	οὐδενός oudenós		οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδεμίαιν oudemíain	οὐδένοιν oudénoin		οὐδένων oudénōn	οὐδεμιῶν oudemiôn	οὐδένων oudénōn
Dative		οὐδενί oudení	οὐδεμιᾷ oudemiâi	οὐδενί oudení		οὐδένοιν oudénoin	οὐδεμίαιν oudemíain	οὐδένοιν oudénoin		οὐδέσι / οὐδέσιν oudési(n)	οὐδεμίαις oudemíais	οὐδέσι / οὐδέσιν oudési(n)
Accusative		οὐδένᾰ oudéna	ουδεμίᾰν oudemían	οὐδέν oudén		οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne		οὐδένᾰς oudénas	οὐδεμῐ́ᾱς oudemíās	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Vocative		οὐδείς oudeís	οὐδεμίᾰ oudemía	οὐδέν oudén		οὐδένε oudéne	οὐδεμίᾱ oudemíā	οὐδένε oudéne		οὐδένες oudénes	οὐδεμίαι oudemíai	οὐδένᾰ oudéna
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ουδείς (oudeís)

See also

• τις (tis, “someone”)

References

• “οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὐδείς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὐδείς 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
• οὐδείς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “οὐδείς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3762 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.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • nobody idem, page 559.
  • none idem, page 562.