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|etymtx=-ιος, -ιδος<br />Grammatical information: m. a. f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">not eating, fasting, sober (jejune)</b> (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 <b class="b3">ἀ-</b> (cf. [[ἀβέλτερος]]) [[ἄνηστις]] = [[ἄσιτος]] (A. Fr. 433 Mette, Cratin. 45).<br />Other forms: dat. also <b class="b3">-ει</b>, nom. pl. also <b class="b3">-εις</b>.<br />Derivatives: [[νηστεύω]] [[fast]] with [[νηστεία]], <b class="b3">-η</b> f. [[fasting]] (IA.) and the rare and late adj. [[νήστιμος]] (pap.; Arbenz 87), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> (Aët.) [[belonging to fasting]].<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [not in Pok.] <b class="b2">*n̥-h₁d-ti-</b> [[not eating]], [[fasting]], [[sober]]<br />Etymology: From the negation <b class="b2">n̥-</b> and the verb for [[eat]] (not as substantiv. of 3. sg. <b class="b3">*νῆστι</b> [[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.