1. νῆστις · nēstis — Beekes
The corpus record
νῆστις
nestis
not eating, fasting, jejune
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Where it lives
- Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
- Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
- Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
- Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
2. νῆστις · nēstis — Chantraine
3. Νῆστις · Nēstis — Chantraine
4. νῆστις · nēstis — Frisk
5. νῆστις · nēstis — Frisk
6. νῆστις · nēstis — LSJ
not eating, fasting, of persons, ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους Il. 19.207; νήστιες ἄχρι . . κνέφαος Od. 18.370, cf. Diocl. Fr. 43, Ev.Matt. 15.32, etc.; νήστισιν ἐπιθέντες οἱ πολέμιοι Onos. 12.1: c. gen., νῆστις βορᾶς E. IT 973: metaph., νῆστιν ἀνὰ . . ψάμμαν over the hungry sand, A. Pr. 573 (lyr.).
with an abstract Subst., freq. in A., νῆστιν νόσον famine, Ag. 1016 (lyr.); ν. λιμός Ch. 250; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr. 599 (lyr.); νήστιδες δύαι Ag. 1621; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, Phryn. PS p.91 B.
Act., causing hunger, starving, πνοαὶ νήστιδες A. Ag. 193 (lyr.).
as Subst., νῆστις, ἡ, acc. νῆστιν Ar. Fr. 318.3, 506.4, Eub. 110.
the intestinum jejunum, from its always being found empty, Hp. Carn. 19, Ar. Fr. 506.4, Eub. 63.5 (anap.), cf. Arist. PA 675b33.
ν. κεστρεύς, fish so called because its stomach was always found empty, Ar. Fr. 156, etc.: hence in Com., of ‘empty bellies’, ἐγὼ δὲ κεστρεὺς νῆστις οἴκαδʼ ἀποτρέχω Alex. 256, etc., cf. Ath. 7.307d.
Νῆστις, ἡ, = ὕδωρ, Emp. 6.3, cf. Alex. 322.
In the wild
- νήστιδες · nēstides Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1621–1622
- νῆστιν · nēstin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1014–1016
- νήστεις · nēsteis Aeschylus, Agamemnon 330–333
- νήστιδες · nēstides Aeschylus, Agamemnon 192–197
- νῆστις · nēstis Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 249
- νήστισιν · nēstisin Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 600–601
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νῆστις (scan p. 1070; entry #4343).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νῆστις (scan p. 770; entry #5654).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νῆστις (scan p. 1290; entry #4100).
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