νέφος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *népʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognates include Latin nebula, Proto-Slavic *nebo (“heaven, sky”), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas, “sky”).

νέφος • (néphos) n (genitive νέφεος or νέφους); third declension

Third declension of τὸ νέφος; τοῦ νέφεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νέφος tò néphos	τὼ νέφεε tṑ néphee	τᾰ̀ νέφεᾰ tà néphea
Genitive	τοῦ νέφεος toû népheos	τοῖν νεφέοιν toîn nephéoin	τῶν νεφέων tôn nephéōn
Dative	τῷ νέφεῐ̈ tôi népheï	τοῖν νεφέοιν toîn nephéoin	τοῖς νέφεσῐ(ν) toîs néphesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ νέφος tò néphos	τὼ νέφεε tṑ néphee	τᾰ̀ νέφεᾰ tà néphea
Vocative	νέφος néphos	νέφεε néphee	νέφεᾰ néphea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

νέφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
νέφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
νέφος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
νέφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
νέφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
νέφος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3509 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cloud idem, page 139.
- fog idem, page 331.
- mist idem, page 535.

νέφος • (néfos) n (plural νέφη)

declension of νέφος