νηδύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to ὀσφῦς (osphûs), δελφύς (delphús) and ἰξύς (ixús). The etymology remains unexplained.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

νηδῠ́ς • (nēdús) f (genitive νηδῠ́ος); third declension

  1. (anatomy) any of the cavities in the body, hence:
    1. stomach
    2. belly, paunch
    3. intestine, bowels
    4. womb, uterus

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ νηδῠ́ς; τῆς νηδῠός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ νηδῠ́ς
hē nēdús		 τὼ νηδῠ́ε
tṑ nēdúe		 αἱ νηδῠ́ες
hai nēdúes
Genitive τῆς νηδῠός
tês nēduós		 τοῖν νηδῠοῖν
toîn nēduoîn		 τῶν νηδῠῶν
tôn nēduôn
Dative τῇ νηδῠῐ̈́
têi nēduḯ		 τοῖν νηδῠοῖν
toîn nēduoîn		 ταῖς νηδῠσῐ́ / νηδῠσῐ́ν
taîs nēdusí(n)
Accusative τὴν νηδῠ́ν
tḕn nēdún		 τὼ νηδῠ́ε
tṑ nēdúe		 τᾱ̀ς νηδῦς / νηδῠ́ᾰς
tā̀s nēdûs / nēdúas
Vocative νηδῠ́
nēdú		 νηδῠ́ε
nēdúe		 νηδῠ́ες
nēdúes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • νηδύα (nēdúa)

Further reading
  • “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “νηδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “νηδύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • νηδύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νηδύς”, 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
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