νῆστις,
genitive ιος or ιδος, ὁ and ἡ (see. below); also dative νήστει [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 60: _plural_ νήστεις 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 138, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 9.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (νη-, ἔδω):—not eating, fasting, of persons, ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.207; νήστιες ἄχρι.. κνέφαος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.370, cf. Diocl.fragment 43, NT.Matt.15.32, etc.; νήστισιν ἐπιθέντες οἱ πολέμιοι 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 12.1: with _genitive_, νῆστις βορᾶς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 973: _metaphorically_, νῆστιν ἀνὰ.. ψάμμαν] NT+8th c.BC+] over the hungry sand, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 573 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with an abstract substantive, frequently in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus, νῆστιν νόσον ] Refs 4th c.BC+]famine, [[ “Ag.” 1016 (Lyric poetry); ν. λιμός “Ch.” 250 ] Refs]; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr.[[ 599 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; νήστιδες δύαι [[ “Ag.” 1621 ] Refs]; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.91 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 active, causing hunger, starving, πνοαὶ νήστιδες [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 193 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as substantive, νῆστις, ἡ, accusative νῆστιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 318.3, 506.4, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 110. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]