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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νύξ (núx, “night”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nykʰ.tʰɛ̌ː.me.ron/ → /nyxˈθi.me.ron/ → /nixˈθi.me.ron/
Noun
νῠχθήμερον • (nukhthḗmeron) n (genitive νῠχθημέρου); second declension
- a day and night, the space of 24 hours
55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle,
Second Epistle to the Corinthians 11:25:
- τρὶς ἐραβδίσθην, ἅπαξ ἐλιθάσθην, τρὶς ἐναυάγησα, νυχθήμερον ἐν τῷ βυθῷ πεποίηκα·
- trìs erabdísthēn, hápax elithásthēn, trìs enauágēsa, nukhthḗmeron en tôi buthôi pepoíēka;
- I was thrice beaten with a rod, once stoned, thrice shipwrecked, and spent a day and night in the sea.
Inflection
Descendants
- ⇒ Greek: νυχθημερόν (nychthimerón, “for a day and a night”, adverb)
Further reading
- “νυχθήμερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νυχθήμερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νυχθήμερον 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
- G3574 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible