νεκρός, ὁ
(of a woman, [
Refs 4th c.BC+],
corpse, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: as
substantive, in early writers always of mankind, νεκροὺς συλήσετε τεθνηῶτας [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of those killed in battle, τοὺς ν. ὑποσπόνδους ἀνείλοντο [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, of a fish, ν. ἰχθύος [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
2 dying person, μυχθισμὸς νεκρῶν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3 metaphorically, ὁ υἱός μου ν. ἦν καὶ ἀνέζησε [
NT]
4 in
plural,
the dead, as dwellers in the nether world, κλυτὰ ἔθνεα νεκρῶν [
NT+8th c.BC+]
II as
adjective νεκρός, ά, όν,
dead, first in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. σώματα Mitteis [
Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also τὰ τῶν ν. σώματα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
comparative -ότερος[
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2 inanimate, inorganic, opposed to ἔμψυχος, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οὐχὶ ν., ὥσπερ λίθον ἢ ξύλον, ἀλλὰ ζῶν [
Refs]; ἡ ν. θάλασσα the [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.3 metaphorically, ν. πλοῦτος [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
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