νέος, νέα,
Ionic dialect νέη, νέον; Ionic dialect νεῖος (which see): [feminine νέας as monosyllable, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 327 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; contraction feminine νῆ [[ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 42 (= 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 9), 5th c.BC: Eugaeon Historicus (?) 1]: ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__1 young, youthful (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as [[ 30, see 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.35), ν. πάϊς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.665; κοῦροι ν. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.95; ν. ἀνήρ 23.589: alone, νέοι ] Refs 8th c.BC+]youths, [[ 1.463, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 281, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: later mostly with Article, οἱ νέοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1059, etc.: proverbial, ὁ ν. ἔσται ν.] Refs 5th c.BC+] 'boys will be boys', [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 910.3 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; οἱ ν., corporately organized, [[ “SIG” 831.8 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD), etc.; opposed to ἔφηβοι, παῖδες, [prev. work]589.38 (Magn.Mae., 2nd c.BC): opposed to γέρων, ἠμὲν νέοι ἠδὲ γέροντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.789, etc.; ἢ ν. ἠὲ παλαιός 14.108, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.395, etc.; opposed to γεραίτερος, 3.24; opposed to προγενέστερος, 2.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to γεραιός, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 1.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν from youth upwards, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510d, etc.; ἐκ νέων παίδων [prev. author] “Lg.” 887d; ἐκ νέων ἐθίζεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1103b24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ νέας (i.e. ψυχῆς) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 409a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ν., ={νεότης}, youth (in the abstract), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1229 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 545: also in concrete sense, τὸ ν. ἅπαν] Refs 5th c.BC+] all young creatures, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 653d; οὐ δύναται τὸ ν. ἡσυχάζειν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1340b29; σκιρτητικὸν τὸ ν. 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of minors, νέου ὄντος ἔτι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νεώτερος.