1. νέκυς · nekys — Chantraine
νέκυς : voir vexpéc. νέμεσις : Voir νέμω. — [Chantraine, s.v. νέκυς, p. 759]
The corpus record
νέκυς
nekus
voir vexpéc
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Where it lives
- Antigone 9 · 12.27/10k
- Phoenissae 8 · 8.29/10k
- Suppliants 4 · 5.69/10k
- Iliad 54 · 4.84/10k
- Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
- Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
- Odyssey 24 · 2.76/10k
- Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. νέκυς · nekys — LSJ
corpse, dead person
corpse, freq. in Il., less freq. in Od.; in Il. 4.492, 493, νέκυς and νεκρός are used of the same dead person; ν. ἀνδρός Hdt. 1.140, cf. 3.16, 24, S. Ant. 26, E. Or. 1585; ν. τεθνηώς, κατατεθνηώς, Il. 18.173, 16.526; νέκυες κατατεθνηῶτες, κτάμενοι, καταφθίμενοι, Od. 10.530, 23.45, 11.491; ἀνδρὸς Πέρσεω ὁ ν. Hdt. 1.140, cf. 3.16; ὁ κατθανὼν ν. S. Ant. 515; dead person, νεκύων σώματα E. Supp. 62 (lyr.).
2 spirits of the dead
in pl., spirits of the dead, freq. in Od. 11, less freq. in Il.; νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα Od. 11.29, cf. Il. 15.251; πεδʼ ἀμαύρων ν. Sapph. 68.
II dead
as Adj. dead, post-Hom., ἐχθρὸν ὧδʼ αἰδῇ νέκυν; S. Aj. 1356; κίχλαι αἱ νέκυες AP 11.96 (Nicarch.); cf. however Il. 24.35, 423.—Poet. word, used also by Hdt., in IG 2(2).1672.119 (iv B.C.), in Cretan, Kohler-Ziebarth Stadtrecht von Gortyn p.35, and in late Prose, Plu. Crass. 19, Hdn. 4.8.5. [ῡ of nom. and acc. sg. in Hom., Il. 4.492, 22.386, etc.; ῠ Simon. 114.5, E. Supp. 70 (lyr.), Or. 1585, and in later Poets, A.R. 4.480, Bion 1.71, AP 7.1 (Alc. Mess.).] (Cf. Avest. nasu- ‘corpse’, Skt. náśyati
In the wild
- νεκύων · nekyōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5069)
- νέκυν · nekyn Euripides, Electra *dio/skouroi (DIORISIS sentence 807)
- νέκυσιν · nekysin Euripides, Helen 1 (DIORISIS sentence 134)
- νέκυσι · nekysi Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 207)
- νέκυσιν · nekysin Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 848)
- νέκυσι · nekysi Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 73)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νέκυς (scan p. 759; entry #5584).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νέκυς (scan p. 1273; entry #4060).
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