Νικόδημος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /niː.kó.dɛː.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /niˈko.de̝.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈko.ði.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈko.ði.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈko.ði.mos/
Proper noun
Νῑκόδημος • (Nīkódēmos) m (genitive Νῑκοδήμου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicodemus
- Nicodemus, a Pharisee who showed favour to Jesus.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Νῑκόδημος ho Nīkódēmos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Νῑκοδήμου toû Nīkodḗmou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Νῑκοδήμῳ tôi Nīkodḗmōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Νῑκόδημον tòn Nīkódēmon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νῑκόδημε Nīkódēme | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌼𐌿𐍃 (nikaudēmus), 𐌽𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌼𐌿𐍃 (nēkaudēmus), 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌿 (neikaudaimau) (dat. sg.)
- → Latin: Nīcodēmus
Further reading
- Νικόδημος 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
- G3530 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible