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νήπιος

nepios

under-aged, young, feeble, childish, foolish

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Distribution

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. νήπιος · nēpios — Beekes

under-aged, young, feeble, childish, foolish

2. νήπιος · nēpios — Chantraine

« tout jeune », épithète de παῖς, βρέφος, εἴο

3. νήπιος · nēpios — Frisk

kindi- schen Wesens, unbesonnen

4. νήπιος · nēpios — Frisk

Myk

5. νήπῐος · nēpios — LSJ

infant, child

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Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) scan pp. 1067-1068; entry #4332 Review: Under source audit
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque scan p. 768; entry #5639 Review: Under source audit
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan pp. 1287-1288; entry #4093 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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