νόσφι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *nes- (“to return home”) + -φῐ (-phi).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nós.pʰi/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈnos.pʰi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈnos.ɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈnos.fi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈnos.fi/
Preposition
νόσφῐ • (nósphi) (governs the genitive)
(Epic, Lyric)
- (of location) far from; in the absence of, apart from, without
- (of motion or direction) away from, to a distance from
- apart from, without the help of
- except (for)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.19–21:
- ... θεοὶ δ’ ἐλέαιρον ἅπαντες
νόσφι Ποσειδᾱ́ωνος· ὁ δ' ἀσπερχὲς μενέαινεν
ἀντιθέῳ Ὀδυσῆϊ πάρος ἣν γαῖαν ἱκέσθαι.- ... theoì d’ eléairon hápantes
nósphi Poseidā́ōnos; ho d' asperkhès menéainen
antithéōi Odusêï páros hḕn gaîan hikésthai. - All the gods pitied [Odysseus]
except for Poseidon. He unceasingly raged
against godlike Odysseus until he reached his homeland.
- ... theoì d’ eléairon hápantes
- ... θεοὶ δ’ ἐλέαιρον ἅπαντες
References
- νόσφι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νόσφι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- apart from idem, page 33.
- without idem, page 984.
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