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Ancient Greek
Etymology
νέκυς (nékus, “corpse”) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás, “group of”, noun-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.kás/ → /neˈkas/ → /neˈkas/
Noun
νεκᾰ́ς • (nekás) f (genitive νεκᾰ́δος); third declension
- A pile of corpses.
- A line or row of soldiers.
- (in the plural) The dead.
Inflection
References
- “νεκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νεκάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νεκάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νεκάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νεκάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “νεκάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter