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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɛː.ás/ → /niˈas/ → /niˈas/
Noun
νηᾰ́ς • (nēás) f (genitive νηᾰ́δος); third declension
- gigantic, mythological animal from Samos called Neades in English, inspired by the fossilized remains of extinct proboscideans.
Declension
Further reading
- “νηάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νηάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νηάς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1015