1. young, youthful (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as 30, v. X.Mem.1.2.35), “ν. πάϊς” Od.4.665; “κοῦροι ν.” Il.13.95; “ν. ἀνήρ” 23.589: alone, “νέοι” youths, 1.463, Hes.Sc.281, etc.: later mostly with Art., “οἱ νέοι” Ar.Nu.1059, etc.: prov., ὁ ν. ἔσται ν. 'boys will be boys', Lib.Ep.910.3; οἱ ν., corporately organized, SIG831.8 (Pergam., ii A.D.), etc.; opp. ἔφηβοι, παῖδες, ib.589.38 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.): opp. “γέρων, ἠμὲν νέοι ἠδὲ γέροντες” Il.2.789, etc.; “ἢ ν. ἠὲ παλαιός” 14.108, cf. Od.1.395, etc.; opp. γεραίτερος, 3.24; opp. προγενέστερος, 2.29; opp. γεραιός, X.Lac.1.7; εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν from youth upwards, Pl.Grg.510d, etc.; “ἐκ νέων παίδων” Id.Lg.887d; “ἐκ νέων ἐθίζεσθαι” Arist.EN1103b24; ἐκ νέας (sc. ψυχῆς) Pl.R.409a; τὸ ν., = νεότης, youth (in the abstract), S.OC1229 (lyr.), E.Ion545: also in concrete sense, τὸ ν. ἅπαν all young creatures, Pl.Lg.653d; “οὐ δύναται τὸ ν. ἡσυχάζειν” Arist.Pol.1340b29; “σκιρτητικὸν τὸ ν.” Corn. ND20; also, of minors, “νέου ὄντος ἔτι” Th.1.107; cf. νεώτερος.
2. suited to a youth, youthful, “ἄεθλοι” Pi.O.2.43; “ν. θράσος” A.Pers.744 (troch.); ν. φροντίς youthful spirits, E.Med.48; “νέαις ταῖς διανοίαις χρωμένους” Lys.24.16; of persons, “ἄφρων νέος τε” E.IA489, cf. Pl.R.378a; “ν. τε καὶ ὀξύς” Id.Grg.463e (but “διαφέρει οὐδὲν ν. τὴν ἡλικίαν ἢ τὸ ἦθος νεαρός” Arist.EN1095a6).
II. new, fresh, “ν. θάλαμος” Il.17.36; “ν. ἄλγος” 6.462; “νέῳ . . κόλλοπι” Od.21.407 (this sense elsewh. in Hom. only in Adv. νέον, v. infr.); “λίνον” Alc.15 (dub.); “πόνοι . . νέοι παλαιοῖσι συμμιγεῖς κακοῖς” A.Th.740 (lyr.), etc.; “οἶνος ν.” Ar.Pax916; “ἐν τοῖς μουσικοῖς τὰ ν. [μέλη] εὐδοκιμεῖ” X.Cyr.1.6.38; ἡ ν. (sc. σελήνη) the new moon, esp. in phrase ἕνη καὶ νέα, v. ἕνος 2; but μηνὸς τῇ ν. (sc. ἡμέρᾳ) on the first day of the month, Pl.Lg.849b; “ν. ἦμαρ” A.R.4.1479: in this sense rarely of persons, “ὁ ν. ταγὸς μακάρων” A.Pr.96 (anap.), cf. Ar. Pl.960; “οἱ ν. θεοί” A.Eu.721; cf. νεώτερος.
2. of events, etc., new, with collat. notion of unexpected, strange, untoward, evil, τί ν.; Id.Ag.85 (anap.); “προσδοκῶ τι γὰρ ν.” E.Supp.99; μῶν τι βουλεύῃ ν.; S.Ph.1229, cf. 554, E.Hipp.794, Ba.362. Th.5.50. etc.: “ἀπροσδοκήτους καὶ ν. λόγους” A.Supp.712; “καινὰ ν. τ᾽ ἄχη” Id.Pers.665 (lyr.): this sense is more common in Comp., v. νεώτερος.
III. neut. νέον as Adv. of Time, lately, just now, opp. both to distant past and present, “παῖδα ν. γεγαῶτα” Od.19.400, cf. Il.3.394; “ν. κρατεῖν” A.Pr. 35,955, etc.: also used Adverbially with the Art., καὶ τὸ πάλαι (v.l. παλαιόν) “καὶ τὸ ν.” Hdt.9.26: in Prose νεωστί (q.v.): rarely Comp. Adv. νεωτέρως, Pl.Lg.907c: Sup. “νεώτατα” most recently, Th.1.7; also ἐκ νέας, Ion. αὖτις ἐκ νέης, anew, afresh, Hdt.1.60, 5.116.
