νοῦς
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See also: νους
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nûːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /nus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /nus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /nus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /nus/
Noun
νοῦς • (noûs) m (genitive νοῦ); second declension (Attic)
- contracted form of νόος (nóos)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ νοῦς ho noûs |
τὼ νώ tṑ nṓ |
οἱ νοῖ hoi noî | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νοῦ toû noû |
τοῖν νοῖν toîn noîn |
τῶν νῶν tôn nôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νῷ tôi nôi |
τοῖν νοῖν toîn noîn |
τοῖς νοῖς toîs noîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν νοῦν tòn noûn |
τὼ νώ tṑ nṓ |
τοὺς νοῦς toùs noûs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νοῦ noû |
νώ nṓ |
νοῖ noî | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun νοῦς
- νοῦς ὑγιής ἐν σώματι ὑγιεῖ (noûs hugiḗs en sṓmati hugieî)
References
- “νοῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νοῦς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νοῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νοῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3563 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.
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