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νῆστις , gen. ιος or ιδος, ὁ and ἡ (v. infr.); also dat.
A.“νήστει” Hp. Acut.60: pl. “νήστεις” Antiph.138, D.H.Rh.9.16: (νη-, ἔδω):—not eating, fasting, of persons, “ἀνώγοιμι πτολεμίζειν υἷας Ἀχαιῶν νήστιας, ἀκμήνους” Il.19.207; “νήστιες ἄχρι . . κνέφαος” Od.18.370, cf. Diocl.Fr.43, Ev.Matt.15.32, etc.; “νήστισιν ἐπιθέντες οἱ πολέμιοι” Onos.12.1: c. gen., “νῆστις βορᾶς” E.IT973: metaph., νῆστιν ἀνὰ . . ψάμμαν over the hungry sand, A.Pr.573 (lyr.).
2. with an abstract Subst., freq. in A., “νῆστιν νόσον” famine, Ag. 1016 (lyr.); “ν. λιμός” Ch.250; νήστισιν αἰκίαις the pains of hunger, Pr.599 (lyr.); “νήστιδες δύαι” Ag.1621; also νῆστις ὀσμή the bad breath of one fasting, Phryn.PSp.91 B.
3. Act., causing hunger, starving, “πνοαὶ νήστιδες” A.Ag.193 (lyr.).
II. as Subst., νῆστις, ἡ, acc. “νῆστιν” Ar.Fr.318.3, 506.4, Eub.110.
1. the intestinum jejunum, from its always being found empty, Hp.Carn. 19, Ar.Fr.506.4, Eub.63.5 (anap.), cf. Arist.PA675b33.
2. ν. κεστρεύς, fish so called because its stomach was always found empty, Ar.Fr.156, etc.: hence in Com., of 'empty bellies', “ἐγὼ δὲ κεστρεὺς νῆστις οἴκαδ᾽ ἀποτρέχω” Alex.256, etc., cf. Ath.7.307d.
3. Νῆστις, ἡ, = ὕδωρ, Emp.6.3, cf. Alex.322.
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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