νηστεία

From νῆστις (nêstis) (from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-h₁ed-tis|t=not eating) + -είᾱ (-eíā).

νηστείᾱ • (nēsteíā) f (genitive νηστείᾱς); first declension

1. fast (period of eating no food, little food or avoiding certain dietary items)
2. fasting

• νηστεία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νηστεία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “νηστεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3521 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Ancient Greek νηστεία (nēsteía)

• IPA^(key): /nisˈti.a/

νηστεία • (nisteía) f (plural νηστείες)

1. fast (period of eating no food, little food or avoiding certain dietary items)

   Synonyms: αφαγία (afagía), αναφαγιά (anafagiá)

   Coordinate terms: δίαιτα (díaita, “diet”), Σαρακοστή (Sarakostí, “Lent”)

   η νηστεία της Μεγάλης Εβδομάδας ― i nisteía tis Megális Evdomádas ― the Holy Week fast

• see: νηστεύω (nistévo, “to fast”)

• νηστεία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• “νηστεία”, in Platform to search dictionaries of modern and medieval Greek at the Centre for the Greek language