A.stillness in the air, calm, “νηνεμίης” in a calm, Il.5.523; γαλήνη ἔπλετο νηνεμίη there was a calm, a ceasing of all winds (the generic and specific words being in appos.), Od.5.392, 12.169; “ἦν μὲν δὴ ν.” Hdt.7.218; ἐξ αἰθρίης τε καὶ ν. ib.188; opp. μέγα πνεῦμα, Pl. Phd.77e; “νηνεμίῃ” in calm weather, Arat.1033, A.R.3.970: in pl., “νηνεμίαι τε καὶ γαλῆναι” Pl.Tht.153c; ἐν νηνεμίῃσι γαλήνης Timo 64: c.gen., ν. ἀνέμων Epic. ap. Pl.Smp.197c (s.v.l.).
νηνεμ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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