νίκη

See also: Νίκη and νίκῃ

Ancient Greek

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps of Proto-Indo-European origin and cognate with νεῖκος (neîkos), Lithuanian ap-nìkti (“to attack”).

νῑ́κη • (nī́kē) f (genitive νῑ́κης); first declension

the act of winning: victory, success [+genitive = over, in something]
1. things won in victory, fruits of victory
2. the upper hand, advantage

First declension of ἡ νῑ́κη; τῆς νῑ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νῑ́κη hē nī́kē	τὼ νῑ́κᾱ tṑ nī́kā	αἱ νῖκαι hai nîkai
Genitive	τῆς νῑ́κης tês nī́kēs	τοῖν νῑ́καιν toîn nī́kain	τῶν νῑκῶν tôn nīkôn
Dative	τῇ νῑ́κῃ têi nī́kēi	τοῖν νῑ́καιν toîn nī́kain	ταῖς νῑ́καις taîs nī́kais
Accusative	τὴν νῑ́κην tḕn nī́kēn	τὼ νῑ́κᾱ tṑ nī́kā	τᾱ̀ς νῑ́κᾱς tā̀s nī́kās
Vocative	νῑ́κη nī́kē	νῑ́κᾱ nī́kā	νῖκαι nîkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Given names derived from νίκη (níkē)

νίκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
νίκη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
νίκη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
νίκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G3529 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Victory idem, page 1029.
- conquest idem, page 161.
- mastery idem, page 517.
- superiority idem, page 839.
- triumph idem, page 896.
- victory idem, page 951.
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
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 9789004174207

νίκη • (níki) f (plural νίκες)

declension of νίκη

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