οὐδείσ, fem. οὐδεμίᾰ (never nom. acc. -μίη, -μίην, since οὐδεμιῇ is prob. in Call.Aet.Oxy.2080.56, rarely οὐδ' ἴαSapph.69, Mosch.4.40), neut. οὐδέν (declined and accentuated like εἷς, μία, ἕν),
not one
, i.e.
no one, none
, used by Hom., Hes., and Pi. (who prefer οὔτισ) only in neut. nom. and acc. οὐδέν, exc. in the phrase τὸ ὃν μένος οὐδενὶ εἴκωνIl.22.459, al.; οὐδείσ is found in B.Fr.28; but all genders and cases are common in all other writers, Hdt.1.32,33, etc.: rare in pl.,
no set
of persons or things, And.1.23 (dub. cj.), X.Lac.3.1; πρὸς οὐδένας τῶν ἙλλήνωνD.18.23 (v.l.), cf. 19.31,66,312, 24.214, 27.7; οὐδένων εἰσὶ βελτίουσ, i.e. οὔ τινων ἄλλων, Id.2.17 (cf. οὐδενὸς βελτίουσPl.Prt.324d): dat. pl. οὐδέσινPaus.3.24.3; for another sense of the pl., v. infr. 11.3.— In Ion. the pl. is usu. οὐδαμοί. 2.οὐ. ὅστις οὐ
every one
, Hdt.3.72, etc.; οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ
every
, Id.5.97; this came to be regarded as one word, so that οὐδείσ passed into the same case as ὅστις, οὐδένα ὅντινα οὐ κατέκλασεPl.Phd.117d; οὐδενὸς ὅτου οὐ πάντων ἂν ..πατὴρ εἴηνId.Prt. 317c, cf. 323b; οὐδενὶ ὅτῳ οὐκ ἀποκρινόμενοσId.Men.70c; so οὐ. ὃς οὐχὶ ..ὀνειδιεῖS.OT373; οὐδὲν γὰρ ..οὔτ' αἰσχρὸν οὔτ' ἄτιμόν ἐσθ', ὁποῖον οὐ ..οὐκ ὄπωπ' ἐγώId.Ant.4. 3. later οὐδὲν ὅ τι without οὐ, =
, in Arith., Nicom.Ar.2.6; used by Democritus as a name for Place, Arist.Fr.208. III. neut. οὐδέν as Adv.,
not at all, naught
, ἄριστον Ἀχαιῶν οὐ. ἔτισενIl.1.412, cf. 24.370, Hdt.5.34, Th.8.22, etc.; so οὐδέν τιX.Mem.1.2.42, etc.; οὐ. τι πάντωσHdt.5.65: in answers,
nothing, never mind, no matter
, E.Med.64, IT781, Ar.Nu. 694; οὐδέν γε
not at all
, Id.Av.1360, etc.; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον, οὐδὲν ἧσσον, οὐδὲν ὕστεροσ, v. μάλα 11.5, ἥσσων 111, ὕστεροσA. I. 2.οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἤ, v. ἄλλοσ III. 2. B. REMARKS: the more emphatic and literal sense,
not even one
, i.e.
none whatever
, belongs to the full form, οὐδὲ εἷς, οὐδὲ μία, οὐδὲ ἕν, which is never elided, even in Com. (v. Ar.Ra.927, Lys.1045 (lyr.), Pl.138, 1115), but freq. has a Particle inserted between, cf. οὐδέB.— Zen. (in EM639.17) and others wrongly assume οὐδείσ as a compd. not of οὐδέ and εἷσ, but of οὐ and δείσ (q. v.). (Later οὐθείσ, q. v.)