νέκυρ

νέκυς ([dialect] Lacon. [full] νέκυρ Hsch.), ῠος, ὁ, poet. dat.

A

νέκυϊ Il.16.526

, etc.; [dialect] Ep. dat. pl.

νεκύεσσι Od.11.491

, νέκυσσι ib. 569, 22.401, 23.45; acc. pl.

νέκῡς Il.7.420

, 18.180, Od.24.417, E.Fr.176.4; also

νέκυας Il.7.418

, al.:—corpse, freq. in Il., less freq. in Od.; in Il.4.492, 493, νέκυς and νεκρός are used of the same dead person;

ν. ἀνδρός Hdt.1.140

, cf. 3.16, 24, S.Ant.26, E.Or. 1585; ν. τεθνηώς, κατατεθνηώς, Il. 18.173, 16.526; νέκυες κατατεθνηῶτες, κτάμενοι, καταφθίμενοι, Od.10.530, 23.45, 11.491;

ἀνδρὸς Πέρσεω ὁ ν. Hdt.1.140

, cf.3.16;

ὁ κατθανὼν ν. S.Ant. 515

; dead person,

νεκύων σώματα E.Supp.62

(lyr.).

2 in pl., spirits of the dead, freq. in Od.11, less freq. in Il.;

νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα Od.11.29

, cf.Il.15.251;

πεδ' ἀμαύρων ν. Sapph.68

.

II as Adj. dead, post-Hom., ἐχθρὸν ὧδ' αἰδῇ νέκυν; S.Aj. 1356;

κίχλαι αἱ νέκυες AP11.96

(Nicarch.); cf. however Il.24.35, 423.—Poet. word, used also by Hdt., in IG22.1672.119 (iv B.C.), in Cretan, Kohler-Ziebarth Stadtrecht von Gortyn p.35, and in late Prose, Plu.Crass.19, Hdn.4.8.5. [[pron. full] ῡ of nom. and acc. sg. in Hom., Il.4.492, 22.386, etc.; [pron. full] ῠ Simon.114.5, E.Supp.70 (lyr.), Or. 1585, and in later Poets, A.R. 4.480, Bion 1.71, AP7.1 (Alc. Mess.).] (Cf. Avest. nasu- 'corpse', Skt. náśyati 'perish', 'disappear', Lat. necare.)

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `corpse, the dead' (Il.), pl. `the dead' = `inhabitant of the Underworld' (Od., Th., LXX, NT), also attributive and adjectival (-ά, - όν) `dead' (hell.; Pi. Fr. 203 νεκρὸν ἵππον prob. predicative).

Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. νεκρο-δέγμων `receiving dead' (Α῝ιδης, A. Pr. 153 [lyr.]); rarely as 2. member, e.g. μυριό-νεκρος `with uncountable dead' ( μάχη, Plu.).

Derivatives: 1. Subst. νεκρών, - ῶνος m. (Tegea II^a, AP), νεκρια f. (hell. pap.; on the unknown accent Scheller Oxytonierung 46) `place of the dead, grave-yard'. 2. Adj. νεκρ-ιμαῖος `belonging to a corpse', τὸ ν. `corpse' (LXX; after θνησιμ-αῖος, Chantraine Form. 49, Mél. Maspero 2, 221); νεκρ-ικός `regarding the dead', τὰν. `inheritance' (Luc., Vett. Val.); νεκρ-ώδης `corpse-like' (Luc., Gal.). 3. Verb νεκρόομαι, - όω `die, kill, enervate' (late) with νέκρωσις `be dead, the killing' (late), - ώσιμα n. pl. = νεκύσια (church-writers, gloss.; Arbenz 93: θανάσιμος), - ώματα pl. `dead bodies' (Arist.-comm.), - ωτικός `causing death' (Gal.). -- In the same meaning νέκῡς (posthom. -ῠ-) m., also adj. `dead' (ep. poet Il., also Hdt. and Gortyn; νέκυρ νεκρός. Λάκωνες H.); some compp., e.g. νεκυο-μαντήϊον, - εῖον `oracle of the dead' (Hdt.), ἰσό-νεκυς `corpse-like' (E. Or. 200 [lyr.], after ἰσό-θεος, s. on ἴσος). Derivv.: νέκυια f. `offer to the dead, so as to call up the dead' (D. S., Plu., Nic.), abstractformation in - ιᾰ for -ίᾱ as ἀλήθεια for - εία etc. (cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 248ff.); in the same meaning νεκυϊσμός (Man.; *νεκυΐζω; on the formations in - ισμός Chantraine Form. 142 ff.); νεκύσια n. pl. `feats of the dead' (hell. pap.; cf. θαλύσια, γενέσια and Stengel Herm. 43, 645ff.) with Νεκύσιος m. Cret. month-name (II<sup>a</sup>); νεκυϊκός `belonging to the dead' (Cyran.); νεκύα f. plantname = φλόμος (Cyran.), because used in the conjuration of the dead; after καρύα, σικύα etc.; on νεκύδαλ(λ)ος s. v. -- Besides νέκες νεκροί H. with νεκ-άς, - άδος f. `heap of dead' (E 886, AP; like νιφάς etc. Bechtel Lex. s.v., Chantraine Form. 352). -- Not here νῶκαρ, - αρος n. s.v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [762] *neḱ-(u-) `violent death, corpse'.

Etymology: The monosyllabic stem νέκ-ες agrees formally excatly to Lat. nex, necis f. `violent death, murder' and to GAv. nas- f. `need, distress', IE *neḱ-s. Also the u-stem in νέκ-υ-ς returns on Iranian soil in Av. nas-u-š gen. nas-āv-ō f. m. `corpse'; orig. the Gr. υ is short beside Iran. ŭ: āv (\< ou̯), Beeekes-Cuypers, Mnemosyne LVI(2003)485-391; wrong Schwyzer 463. Here perh. Lat. nequālia `detrimenta'. The alternatings r(o)-formation in νεκ-ρό-ς has no parallel outside Greek. ( νῶκαρ will rather be non-IE, i.e. Pre-Greek; Fur. 133; s.v.) Greek has no parallels to the primary verbs (e.g. Skt. náś-ya-ti, Toch. A näk-näṣ-tär `disappear, perish'). -- WP. 2, 326, Pok. 762, W.-Hofmann s. necō with further forms, Mayrhofer s. náśyati. -- Not here νέκταρ.

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