Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νοῦσος ‎(noûsos) (Epic, Ionic)

Noun

νόσος • ‎(nósos) f ‎(genitive νόσου); second declension

1. sickness, disease,
2. plague
3. misery, suffering, distress
4. madness, vice
5. bane

Descendants

• English: nosocomial, nosology, anosognosia, nosode, noso-

Inflection

References

• νόσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νόσος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νόσος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «νόσος» 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
• νόσος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3554”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «νόσος» 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.
  • affection idem, page 16.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • ailment idem, page 21.
  • canker idem, page 110.
  • complaint idem, page 151.
  • contagion idem, page 166.
  • contamination idem, page 166.
  • disease idem, page 232.
  • disorder idem, page 235.
  • epidemic idem, page 279.
  • illness idem, page 415.
  • infection idem, page 437.
  • infirmity idem, page 438.
  • malady idem, page 509.
  • miasma idem, page 527.
  • murrain idem, page 547.
  • pest idem, page 609.
  • pestilence idem, page 609.
  • plague idem, page 616.
  • plague-spot idem, page 616.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • sickness idem, page 772.
  • taint idem, page 852.
  • unhealthiness idem, page 921.
• νόσος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Noun

νόσος • ‎(nósos) f ‎(plural νόσοι)

1. (medicine) disease

Declension

Synonyms

• αρρώστια f ‎(arróstia)
• ασθένεια f ‎(asthéneia)
• πάθηση f ‎(páthisi)

Related terms

• νοσηλεύτρια f ‎(nosiléftria, “nurse”)
• νοσηλευτής m ‎(nosileftís, “male nurse”)
• νοσοκόμα f ‎(nosokóma, “nurse”)
• νοσοκόμος m ‎(nosokómos, “male nurse”)
• νοσοκομείο n ‎(nosokomeío, “hospital”)