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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νύμφη (númphē) + -ιος (-ios)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nym.pʰí.os/ → /nymˈɸi.os/ → /nimˈfi.os/
Noun
νυμφίος • (numphíos) m (genitive νυμφίου); second declension
- a bridegroom
Declension
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Further reading
- νυμφίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νυμφίος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “νυμφίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νυμφίος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3566 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.