Νικομήδης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νῑ́κη (nī́kē) + μήδεα (mḗdea).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /niː.ko.mɛ̌ː.dɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ni.koˈme̝.de̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ni.koˈmi.ðis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ni.koˈmi.ðis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ni.koˈmi.ðis/
Proper noun
Νῑκομήδης • (Nīkomḗdēs) m (genitive Νῑκομήδους); third declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicomedes
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Νῑκομήδης ho Nīkomḗdēs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Νῑκομήδους toû Nīkomḗdous | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Νῑκομήδει tôi Nīkomḗdei | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Νῑκομήδη tòn Nīkomḗdē | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νῑκόμηδες Nīkómēdes | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Νικομήδεια (Nikomḗdeia)
Descendants
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018