νεφέλη

See also: Νεφέλη

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 7 June 2023

Etymology

From νέφος (néphos, “cloud”). Related to Latin nebula.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.pʰé.lɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈpʰe.le̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈɸe.li/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/

Noun

νεφέλη • (nephélē) f (genitive νεφέλης); first declension

cloud, mass of clouds
cloud in urine
cloud on a mirror
(in the plural) fine bird-net
(alchemy) sublimate

Declension

First declension of ἡ νεφέλη; τῆς νεφέλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νεφέλη hē nephélē	τὼ νεφέλᾱ tṑ nephélā	αἱ νεφέλαι hai nephélai
Genitive	τῆς νεφέλης tês nephélēs	τοῖν νεφέλαιν toîn nephélain	τῶν νεφελῶν tôn nephelôn
Dative	τῇ νεφέλῃ têi nephélēi	τοῖν νεφέλαιν toîn nephélain	ταῖς νεφέλαις taîs nephélais
Accusative	τὴν νεφέλην tḕn nephélēn	τὼ νεφέλᾱ tṑ nephélā	τᾱ̀ς νεφέλᾱς tā̀s nephélās
Vocative	νεφέλη nephélē	νεφέλᾱ nephélā	νεφέλαι nephélai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἐπινέφελος (epinéphelos)
νεφεληγερής (nephelēgerḗs)
νεφεληδόν (nephelēdón)
νεφελίζω (nephelízō)
νεφέλιον (nephélion)
νεφελοειδής (nepheloeidḗs)
νεφελοκένταυρος (nephelokéntauros)
νεφελοκοκκυγία (nephelokokkugía)
νεφελομιγής (nephelomigḗs)
νεφελόομαι (nephelóomai)
νεφελοστάσια (nephelostásia)
νεφελοφόρος (nephelophóros)
νεφελώδης (nephelṓdēs)
νεφελωτός (nephelōtós)
ὑπερνέφελος (hupernéphelos)

Descendants

Greek: νεφέλη (neféli)

Further reading

“νεφέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“νεφέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“νεφέλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
νεφέλη 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
νεφέλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G3507 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
νεφέλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /neˈfe.li/

Noun

νεφέλη • (neféli) f (plural νεφέλες)

cloud

Declension

declension of νεφέλη

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	νεφέλη •	νεφέλες •
genitive	νεφέλης •	νεφελών •
accusative	νεφέλη •	νεφέλες •
vocative	νεφέλη •	νεφέλες •

Synonyms

νέφος n (néfos)
σύννεφο n (sýnnefo)

Further reading

Νεφέλη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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