νέκταρ

From Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“to perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”). Literally, “overcoming death”, and so called because it gave immortality.

νέκτᾰρ • (néktar) n (genitive νέκτᾰρος); third declension

1. nectar, the specific nourishment (drink) of the gods

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• νεκτάρεος (nektáreos)

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• → Latin: nectar
  • → English: nectar
  • French: nectar
  • Italian: nettare
  • Portuguese: néctar
  • Spanish: néctar

• ἀμβροσία (ambrosía)

• “νέκταρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νέκταρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νέκταρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νέκταρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νέκταρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “νέκταρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • nectar idem, page 554.

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νέκταρ • (néktar) f (uncountable)

1. (Greek mythology) nectar (the drink of the gods)
2. (by extension) an especially delicious drink

• αμβροσία f (amvrosía, “ambrosia”)

• νέκταρ on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el