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νόσφι

nosphi

aside, far (from), without

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What it meant

1. νόσφι · nosphi — Beekes

νόσφι(ν) [adv., prep.] ‘aside, far (from), without’ (epic and lyr. since IL). «Ὁ» eDER νοσφίδιος ‘situated aside, secretly’ (Hes. Fr. 187), νοσφιδόν [adv.] ‘secretly’ (Eust.); verb voogiCopat ‘to turn away (intr.), remove (oneself), steal’ (B 81 = 0 222), act. ‘turn away (trans.), remove’, aor. νοσφίσίσγ)ασθαι, pass. νοσφισθῆναι (Od.), fut. νοσφίσ(σ)ομαι (A. R.), also act. voogilw (h. Cer., Pi.); sometimes with … — [Beekes, s.v. νόσφι, p. 1075]

2. νόσφι · nosphi — Chantraine

νόσφι : adverbe qui peut fonctionner avec un génitif, donc comme préposition « de côté, à part, loin de, à l'écart, excepté » (Hom., lyriques, Æsch. Supp. 239); le mot admet le v éphelcystique ; en outre, ἀπό-νοσφι (Hom.). Rares dérivés : νοσφίδιος « caché » (Hés. fr. 187), avec un suffixe qui fournit notamment des adjectifs de lieu et de temps, cf. Chantraine, Formation 39; νοσφιδόν adv. « furtivement » (Eust.). … — [Chantraine, s.v. νόσφι, p. 774]

3. νόσφι · nosphi — Frisk

νόσφι(ν) Adv. u. Präp. “abseits, fern (von), ohne, außer’ (ep. Iyr. seit Il.; zum Gebrauch Schwyzer-Debrunner 540). — Davon voopiduog “abseits gelegen, heimlich’ (Hes. Fr. 187; Chantraine Form. 39, Schwyzer 467), νοσφιδόν Adv. “insgeheim’ (Eust.); voopiZouaı (seit B81 = 2 222), voopio(o)Jacdaı, νοσφισϑῆναι (seit Od.), Fut. voopio(o Jouaı (A. R. u.a.), auch Akt. voopilw usw. (Ah. Cer., Pi. u.a.), vereinzelt m. … — [Frisk, s.v. νόσφι, p. 1296]

4. νόσφῐ · nosphi — LSJ

I aloof, apart, aside, aside, aside, aloof from, besides, except, separately

Adv. of Place, aloof, apart, aside (cf. ἀπονόσφι), νόσφιν ἀειράσας after carrying the corpse aside, Il. 24.583 ; ν. ἰδών having looked aside, Od. 17.304 ; νόσφιν ἀπό . . aloof from, Il. 5.322, 15.244, Hes. Th. 57 ; ν. ἄτερ . . Id. Sc. 15 ; ν. ἤ . . besides, except, Theoc. 25.197 ; ν. μέν . . ν. δέ separately, Coluth. 105.

2 aside, secretly

aside, secretly, ν. ἀκούων Il. 17.408.

II aloof, away from, far from

as Prep., c. gen., aloof or away from, far from, ν. πολέμοιο, φίλων, 6.443, 14.256 ; ν. πόληος Od. 16.383, etc. ; ν. νόσων πενίας τε B. 1.60.

2 without, apart from, unaided by

without, apart from, unaided by, mostly of persons, ν. δεσποίνης Od. 14.9 ; ν. Ἀχαιῶν Il. 5.803 ; οὔτε κακὸς ν. δαίμονος οὔτʼ ἀγαθός Thgn. 166 ; ν. ἡγητῶν A. Supp. 239 ; of things, ν. ἄτερ τε κακῶν καὶ ἄτερ . . πόνοιο Hes. Op. 91 ; ν. ἄτερ τε πόνων καὶ ὀϊζύος ib. 113 ; οὔτʼ εἰπεῖν ἐστί τι ν. πόθων AP 12.18 (Alph.).

3 apart from, differently from, without, knowledge and consent

of mind or disposition, τοί κεν Ἀχαιῶν ν. βουλεύωσʼ apart from, i.e. differently from, the (rest of the) Achaeans, Il. 2.347 ; ν. Δήμητρος without her knowledge and consent, h.Cer. 4 ; ν. ἐμεῖο ib. 72.

4 beside, except

beside, except, ν. Ποσειδάωνος Od. 1.20 ; νόσφʼ Ὠκεανοῖο Il. 20.7 ; ν. Νότου Hes. Th. 870.—Ep. and Lyr. word, once in A., l.c., never in S. or E.

Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νόσφι (scan pp. 1075-1076; entry #4366). Root candidates: *nos-.
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νόσφι (scan p. 774; entry #5679).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. νόσφι (scan p. 1296; entry #4115).

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