νάκη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • νάκος (nákos)

Etymology

Has been connected with Old English næsc (“soft leather; deer skin”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

νᾰ́κη • (nákē) f (genitive νᾰ́κης); first declension

  1. woolen skin, fleece

Inflection
First declension of ἡ νᾰ́κη; τῆς νᾰ́κης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ νᾰ́κη
hē nákē		 τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ
tṑ nákā		 αἱ νᾰ́και
hai nákai
Genitive τῆς νᾰ́κης
tês nákēs		 τοῖν νᾰ́καιν
toîn nákain		 τῶν νᾰκῶν
tôn nakôn
Dative τῇ νᾰ́κῃ
têi nákēi		 τοῖν νᾰ́καιν
toîn nákain		 ταῖς νᾰ́καις
taîs nákais
Accusative τὴν νᾰ́κην
tḕn nákēn		 τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ
tṑ nákā		 τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́κᾱς
tā̀s nákās
Vocative νᾰ́κη
nákē		 νᾰ́κᾱ
nákā		 νᾰ́και
nákai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • κατωνάκη (katōnákē)
  • νακοδέψης (nakodépsēs)
  • νακύριον (nakúrion)

Descendants
  • Italian: naca
  • Sicilian: naca

Further reading
  • “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “νάκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • νάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • νάκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 994
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