LOGOI

The corpus record

νῆϊς

neis1 · ὁ

unknowing of, unpractised in

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

What it meant

νῆϊς · nēis — LSJ

unknowing of, unpractised in, less

unknowing of, unpractised in a thing, οὐ νῆϊς ἀέθλων Od. 8.179: abs., Il. l.c.; ν. ἔτι χρυσέας Κύπριδος B. 5.174, cf. Call. Aet. 3.1.49 [Fr. 75.49 Pf.]; ναυτιλίης . . νῆϊν ἔχεις βίον ib. 1.1.33 [Fr. 178.33 Pf.], cf. Id. Aet. Oxy. 2079.2 [Fr. 1.2 Pf.]; ν. πατρός fatherless, Q.S. 5.506: Comp. νηϊδέστερος Hsch.

II powerless, feeble

(νη-, ἴς) powerless, feeble, Id., Suid.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about νῆϊς →