νεῖκος

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neik- (“to attack, start vehemently”) and cognate with Lithuanian ap-ni̇̀kti (“to attack”), su-ni̇̀kti (“to attack”), Latvian nikns (“bad, grim, vehement”), maybe also Russian в-никнуть (v-niknutʹ), про-никнуть (pro-niknutʹ). See also νίκη (níkē).

νεῖκος • (neîkos) n (genitive νείκους); third declension

1. quarrel, wrangle, strife
2. strife of words, railing, abuse, taunt, reproach
   • Homer, Iliad 13.483
3. strife of law, dispute before a judge
   • Homer, Odyssey 12.440
4. battle, fight
   • Homer, Iliad 4.444

• Πολυνείκης (Poluneíkēs)

• νεῖκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νεῖκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νεῖκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νεῖκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νεῖκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• νεῖκος 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.
  • bickering idem, page 78.
  • brawl idem, page 94.
  • broil idem, page 100.
  • contention idem, page 167.
  • controversy idem, page 170.
  • coolness idem, page 173.
  • difference idem, page 223.
  • disagreement idem, page 227.
  • discord idem, page 230.
  • discussion idem, page 232.
  • dispute idem, page 238.
  • dissension idem, page 239.
  • feud idem, page 317.
  • quarrel idem, page 663.
  • strife idem, page 825.
  • variance idem, page 944.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill