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νόθος

nothos

procreated out of wedlock by a known father, illegitimate, bastard

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. νόθος · nothos — Beekes

νόθος [m.] ‘procreated out of wedlock by a known father, illegitimate, bastard’ (ΤΟΣ opposite γνήσιος. *COMP νοθᾶ-γενής ‘baseborn’ (E.), with analogical ἃ (Dor.) for o (Schwyzer: 438). *DER νοθεῖος ‘ptng. to a νόθος᾽ (Lys., Ar.), denominative νοθεύω [v.] ‘to corrupt, adulterate’ (LXX, J., Plu., Luc.), also with ὕπο-, with νοθεία [f.] ‘birth out of wedlock’ νόσος 1023 (Plu.), (ὑπονοθευτής [m.] ‘adulterer’ … — [Beekes, s.v. νόθος, p. 1073]

2. νόθος · nothos — Chantraine

νόθος, -n, -ov : «bâtard», né hors mariage d’une concubine ou d’une esclave, à Athènes enfant d'un père citoyen et d’une mère étrangère, opposé à γνήσιος (Hom., jion.-att., etc.) ; en attique au figuré pour ce qui est faux, non authentique, en grec tardif d'œuvres non authentiques, voir Scheller, Fesischrift Debrunner 399 sq. Rares composés νοθο-γέννητος (Hsch.), -καλλοσύνη (AP), et avec un ἃ singulier νοθἄ-γενῆς … — [Chantraine, s.v. νόθος, p. 772]

3. νόθ-ος · noth-os — LSJ

bastard, baseborn

bastard, baseborn, i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός Il. 2.727, etc.; παῖδες ν. Hdt. 8.103, Pl. Ap. 27d; opp. γνήσιος, Il. 11.102, Ar. Av. 1650; ὅδʼ, εἰ ν. τις, γνησίοις ἴσον σθένει S. Fr. 87; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε Ep.Hebr. 12.8: fem., κούρη νόθη Il. 13.173.

2 child of a citizen father and an alien mother

at Athens, child of a citizen father and an alien mother, D. 23.213, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός Plu. Them. 1.

3 temple-attendants

pl., in Egypt, a class of temple-attendants, Wilcken Chr. 66 (iii B.C.).

4 cross-bred

of animals, cross-bred, πρόβατα PHib. 1.32.15 (iii B.C.).

II spurious, counterfeit, supposititious, false, meretricious, insincerely, disingenuously

generally, spurious, counterfeit, supposititious, of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. Pl. Ti. 52b, cf. Dam. Pr. 26; ν. παιδείᾳ Pl. Lg. 741a; ν. ἡδοναί Id. R. 587c; ἀοιδαί Call. l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν Arist. PA 669b28; αἱ ν. πλευραί the false ribs, Paus. 1.35.6, Gal. UP 4.9, Aret. SA 2.6; ν. πυρετός Gal. 11.30; ν. σάλπιγξ, of a serpentʼs hiss, Nonn. D. 35.214; ν. φέγγος, of the moon, opp. γνήσιον, of the sun, Ph. 1.628; ν. ἱματισμός meretricious, Peripl.M.Rubr. 39, 49. Adv. -θως insincerely,

2 spurious

of literary works, spurious, Porph. Plot. 16.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νόθος (scan pp. 1073-1074; entry #4360).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νόθος (scan p. 772; entry #5671).

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