νέος

νέος, νέα, [dialect] Ion. νέη, νέον; [dialect] Ion. [full] νεῖος (q.v.): [fem. νέας as monosyll., A.Th.327 (lyr.); [var] contr. fem.

A

νῆ Xenoph.42

(= Ar.Fr.9), Eugaeon (?) 1]:

1 young, youthful (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as 30, v. X.Mem.1.2.35),

ν. πάϊς Od.4.665

;

κοῦροι ν. Il.13.95

;

ν. ἀνήρ 23.589

: alone,

νέοι

youths,

1.463

, Hes.Sc.281, etc.: later mostly with Art.,

οἱ νέοι Ar.Nu.1059

, etc.: prov., ὁ ν. ἔσται ν. 'boys will be boys', Lib.Ep.910.3; οἱ ν., corporately organized, SIG831.8 (Pergam., ii A.D.), etc.; opp. ἔφηβοι, παῖδες, ib.589.38 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.): opp.

γέρων, ἠμὲν νέοι ἠδὲ γέροντες Il.2.789

, etc.;

ἢ ν. ἠὲ παλαιός 14.108

, cf. Od.1.395, etc.; opp. γεραίτερος, 3.24; opp. προγενέστερος, 2.29; opp. γεραιός, X.Lac.1.7; εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν from youth upwards, Pl.Grg.510d, etc.;

ἐκ νέων παίδων Id.Lg.887d

;

ἐκ νέων ἐθίζεσθαι Arist.EN1103b24

; ἐκ νέας (sc. ψυχῆς) Pl.R.409a; τὸ ν., = νεότης, youth (in the abstract), S.OC1229 (lyr.), E.Ion545: also in concrete sense, τὸ ν. ἅπαν all young creatures, Pl.Lg.653d;

οὐ δύναται τὸ ν. ἡσυχάζειν Arist.Pol.1340b29

;

σκιρτητικὸν τὸ ν. Corn. ND20

; also, of minors,

νέου ὄντος ἔτι Th.1.107

; cf. νεώτερος.

b rarely of animals and plants, ὄρπηκες, ἔρνος, Il.21.38, Od.6.163;

οἱ ν. τῶν νεβρῶν X.Cyn.9.8

.

2 suited to a youth, youthful,

ἄεθλοι Pi.O.2.43

;

ν. θράσος A.Pers.744

(troch.); ν. φροντίς youthful spirits, E.Med.48;

νέαις ταῖς διανοίαις χρωμένους Lys.24.16

; of persons,

ἄφρων νέος τε E.IA489

, cf. Pl.R.378a;

ν. τε καὶ ὀξύς Id.Grg.463e

(but

διαφέρει οὐδὲν ν. τὴν ἡλικίαν ἢ τὸ ἦθος νεαρός Arist.EN1095a6

).

II new, fresh,

ν. θάλαμος Il.17.36

;

ν. ἄλγος 6.462

;

νέῳ . . κόλλοπι Od.21.407

(this sense elsewh. in Hom. only in Adv. νέον, v. infr.);

λίνον Alc.15

(dub.);

πόνοι . . νέοι παλαιοῖσι συμμιγεῖς κακοῖς A.Th.740

(lyr.), etc.;

οἶνος ν. Ar.Pax916

;

ἐν τοῖς μουσικοῖς τὰ ν. [μέλη] εὐδοκιμεῖ X.Cyr.1.6.38

; ἡ ν. (sc. σελήνη) the new moon, esp. in phrase ἕνη καὶ νέα, v. ἕνος 2; but μηνὸς τῇ ν. (sc. ἡμέρᾳ) on the first day of the month, Pl.Lg.849b;

ν. ἦμαρ A.R.4.1479

: in this sense rarely of persons,

ὁ ν. ταγὸς μακάρων A.Pr.96

(anap.), cf. Ar. Pl.960;

οἱ ν. θεοί A.Eu.721

; cf. νεώτερος.

2 of events, etc., new, with collat. notion of unexpected, strange, untoward, evil, τί ν.; Id.Ag.85 (anap.);

προσδοκῶ τι γὰρ ν. E.Supp.99

; μῶν τι βουλεύῃ ν.; S.Ph.1229, cf. 554, E.Hipp.794, Ba.362. Th.5.50. etc.:

ἀπροσδοκήτους καὶ ν. λόγους A.Supp.712

;

καινὰ ν. τ' ἄχη Id.Pers.665

(lyr.): this sense is more common in [comp] Comp., v. νεώτερος.

III neut. νέον as Adv. of Time, lately, just now, opp. both to distant past and present,

παῖδα ν. γεγαῶτα Od.19.400

, cf. Il.3.394;

ν. κρατεῖν A.Pr. 35

,955, etc.: also used Adverbially with the Art., καὶ τὸ πάλαι (v.l. παλαιόν)

καὶ τὸ ν. Hdt.9.26

: in Prose νεωστί (q.v.): rarely [comp] Comp. Adv. νεωτέρως, Pl.Lg.907c: [comp] Sup.

νεώτατα

most recently,

Th.1.7

; also ἐκ νέας, [dialect] Ion. αὖτις ἐκ νέης, anew, afresh, Hdt.1.60, 5.116.

IV. the degrees of [comp] Comp. are νεώτερος, νεώτατος, v. νεώτερος: νεαίτερος is corrupt for νεαίρετος in A.Fr.330. (νέϝος (in νεϝόστατος, q.v.), cf. Skt. návas, Lat. novus, etc.)