νόθος

English (LSJ)

η, ον, also ος, ον (Call.Fr.279),

   A bastard, baseborn, i.e. born of a slave or concubine, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), ν. υἱός Il.2.727, etc.; παῖδες ν. Hdt.8.103, Pl.Ap.27d; opp. γνήσιος, Il.11.102, Ar. Av.1650; ὅδ', εἰ ν. τις, gnhsi/ois i)/son sqe/nei S.Fr.87; νόθοι καὶ οὐχ υἱοί ἐστε Ep.Hebr.12.8: fem., κούρη νόθη Il.13.173.    2 at Athens, child of a citizen father and an alien mother, D.23.213, etc.; νόθος πρὸς μητρός Plu.Them.1.    3 pl., in Egypt, a class of temple-attendants, Wilcken Chr.66 (iii B.C.).    4 of animals, cross-bred, πρόβατα PHib.1.32.15 (iii B.C.).    II generally, spurious, counterfeit, supposititious, of persons and things, λογισμῷ τινι ν. Pl.Ti.52b, cf. Dam. Pr.26; ν. παιδείᾳ Pl.Lg.741a; ν. ἡδοναί Id.R.587c; ἀοιδαί Call.l.c.; νόθον ἧπαρ ὁ σπλήν Arist.PA669b28; αἱ ν. πλευραί the false ribs, Paus. 1.35.6, Gal.UP4.9, Aret.SA2.6; ν. πυρετός Gal.11.30; ν. σάλπιγξ, of a serpent's hiss, Nonn.D.35.214; ν. φέγγος, of the moon, opp. γνήσιον, of the sun, Ph.1.628; ν. ἱματισμός meretricious, Peripl.M. Rubr.39,49. Adv. -θως insincerely, disingenuously, LXX 3 Ma.3.17, cf. Hsch.    2 of literary works, spurious, Porph.Plot.16.