previous next
νηδύς , ύος, ἡ,
A.any of the cavities in the body, Hp.de Arte10: hence,
1. stomach, Od.9.296, Hes.Th.487, S.OC1263, etc.
2. belly, paunch, Il.13.290, Hdt.2.47.
3. bowels, A.Ch.757, Hp. Aër.19, etc.; “ἐξελεῖν τὴν νηδύν” Hdt.2.87; as the seat of thirst, “τέγξας ἄδιψον νηδύν” E.Cyc.574; “ἄρδῃ τε νηδύν” Id.Supp.207.
4. womb, Il.24.496, Hes.Th.460, A.Eu.665, etc.; also of Zeus when in travail of Athena, Hes.Th.890,899; of Dionysus, E.Ba.527 (lyr.).
5. metaph., “ν. νάρθηκος” Nic.Al.272; “λέβητος” Orph.L.276.—Acc. νηδύα for νηδύν in Q.S.1.616; dat. pl. “νηδύσι” Nic.Th.467. [υ^ in trisyll. cases, also νηδυ^ς A.Ch.l.c., Call.Dian.160, νηδυ^ν E.Andr.356, Cyc. 574: but νηδυ_ν AP9.519 (Alc.), Nic.Al.416, Orph. l.c.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (16 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 665
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 757
    • Euripides, Andromache, 356
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 527
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 574
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 207
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.47
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.87
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 487
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 460
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 890
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 899
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.496
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.296
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1263
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.290
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: