- νῆστις
- νῆστις, -ιος, -ιδοςGrammatical information: m. a. f.Meaning: `not eating, fasting, sober (jejune)' (Il.); subst. f. part of the small intestine, `intestinum ieiunum', as it was found always empty upon section (Hp., Arist.; Strömberg Wortstudien 63); second. masc. νήστης (Semon., Arist.), f. νήστειρα (Nic. Al. 130; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 126 A. 2). With pleonastic ἀ- (cf. ἀβέλτερος) ἄνηστις = ἄσιτος (A. Fr. 433 Mette, Cratin. 45).Other forms: dat. also -ει, nom. pl. also -εις.Derivatives: νηστεύω `fast' with νηστεία, -η f. `fasting' (IA.) and the rare and late adj. νήστ-ιμος (pap.; Arbenz 87), -ικός (Aët.) `belonging to fasting'.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [not in Pok.] *n̥-h₁d-ti- `not eating, fasting, sober'Etymology: From the negation n̥- and the verb for `eat' (not as substantiv. of 3. sg. *νῆστι `he does not eat'; Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 48 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1150, Syntax 2,252 (Schwyzer 504 n. 6). -- On the Sicilian watergoddess Νῆστις (Emp. 6, 3), which does not belong here s. Mayer Mél. Bq 2, 135 f. w. further lit.Page in Frisk: 2,
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