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νήσους (nesous)

νήσους is an Ancient Greek form of νῆσος, meaning “island”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 252 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.297: νήσους τοῖό γʼ ἕκητι, πάρος Πλωτὰς καλέοντες.

Lycophron, Alexandra 1465: Νησοῦς θυγατρός, ἤ τι Φίκιον τέρας,

All forms of νῆσος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.