οὐδείς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὐθείς (outheís)
• οὐδὴς (oudḕs) — Laconian, Doric

Etymology

From οὐδέ (oudé, “and not, not even”) + εἷς (heîs, “one”). Sometimes incorrectly stated as from οὐ (ou, “no, not”) + δείς (deís, “no one, nothing”), as a result of the later variant, οὐθείς (outheís).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

οὐδείς • (oudeís)

1. no one, nobody, none, nothing, no

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: ουδείς (oudeís)

See also

• τις (tis, “someone”)

References

• “οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὐδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὐδείς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὐδείς 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
• οὐδείς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “οὐδείς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3762 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.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • nobody idem, page 559.
  • none idem, page 562.