οὐδείς,
feminine οὐδεμίᾰ (never nominative accusative -μίη, -μίην, since οὐδεμιῇ is probably in [[ Callias Epigrammaticus “Aet.Oxy.” 2080.56] Refs], rarely οὐδ᾽ ἴα [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 69, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 4.40), _neuter_ οὐδέν (declined and accentuated like{εἷς}, μία, ἕν)] Refs 7th c.BC+], not one, i.e. no one, none, used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (who prefer οὔτις) only in _neuter_ _nominative_ and _accusative_ οὐδέν] Refs 8th c.BC+], except in the phrase τὸ ὃν μένος οὐδενὶ εἴκων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.459, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδείς is found in [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 28; but all genders and cases are common in all other writers, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 33, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: rare in plural, no set of persons or things, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.23 (uncertain conjecture), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 3.1; πρὸς οὐδένας τῶν Ἑλλήνων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.23 (variant), compare 19.31,66,312, 24.214, 27.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδένων εἰσὶ βελτίους, i.e. οὔ τινων ἄλλων, [[ [prev. author] 2.17 (compare οὐδενὸς βελτίους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 324d): _dative_ _plural_ οὐδέσιν 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.24.3; for another sense of the _plural_, see below 11.3.] Refs 5th c.BC+] —In _Ionic dialect_ the _plural_ is usually οὐδαμοί.
__2 οὐ. ὅστις οὐ every one, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.72, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ every, [[ [prev. author] 5.97 ] Refs]; this came to be regarded as one word, so that οὐδείς passed into the same case as ὅστις, οὐδένα ὅντινα οὐ κατέκλασε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117d; οὐδενὸς ὅτου οὐ πάντων ἂν.. πατὴρ εἴην [prev. author] “Prt.” 317c, compare 323b; οὐδενὶ ὅτῳ οὐκ ἀποκρινόμενος [prev. author] “Men.” 70c; so οὐ. ὃς οὐχὶ.. ὀνειδιεῖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 373; οὐδὲν γὰρ.. οὔτ᾽ αἰσχρὸν οὔτ᾽ ἄτιμόν ἐσθ᾽, ὁποῖον οὐ.. οὐκ ὄπωπ᾽ ἐγώ [prev. author] “Ant.” 4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]