ου (ὁ) [ᾱ]
      1 jeune homme, homme jeune, XÉN. An. 7, 2, 18 ; PLAT. Rsp. 413 e, etc. ;
      2 serviteur, LUC. Alex. 53.

➳ Ion. νεηνίσκος, HDT. 4, 72, 112.

Étym. νεανίας.

Ion. νεηνίσκος, ὁ, (< νεάν) youth, young man, IG1². 374.162, al., Hdt. 4.72, 112, Pl. Smp. 211d, Arist. Pol. 1303b21, Anon. Hist. (FGrH 160) p. 887 J., etc. ; ν. τὸ εἶδος (nisi leg. νεανικός) X. HG 3.3.5; in Hdt. 3.53 the same youth is called both νεηνίης and νεηνίσκος ; but in Antipho 3.4.6 and 8 the same person is called ν. and μειράκιον, and the eldest son of Socrates is called νεανίσκος X. Mem. 2.2.1, but μειράκιον Pl. Ap. 34d; ἔν τε παισὶ καὶ ν. καὶ ἐν ἀνδράσι Id. R. 413e; παῖς εἴκοσι ἔτεα, νεηνίσκος εἴκοσι, νεηνίης εἴκοσι, γέρων εἴκοσι Pythag. ap. D.L. 8.10, cf. Hp. Hebd. 5; more freq. than νεανίας in later Gr., Wilcken Chr. 30i4 (iii/ii BC), Plb. 1.36.12, Ev. Matt. 19.20, etc. ὁ ἐμὸς ν. my young man, i.e.
servant, Luc. Alex. 53; perh. also, PCair. Zen. 18.6 (iii BC), Ev. Marc. 14.51; pl., dub.sens., PCair. Zen. 153 (iii BC, written νενίσκοις).

[ᾱ], ὁ, ion. νεηνίσκος, junger Mann, Jüngling ; Her. 3.53, 4.72 ; τοὺς καλοὺς παῖδας καὶ νεανίσκους, Plat. Symp. 211d ; ἔν τε παισὶ καὶ νεανίσκοις καὶ ἐν ἀνδράσι, Rep. III.413e ; Folgde.
Bei Luc. Alex. 53 der Diener.

νεανίσκος, -ου, ὁ
(dimin. of νεανίας) [in LXX chiefly for נַעַר, also for בָּחוּר, etc. ;]
a young man, youth: Mat.19:20, 22, Mrk.14:51 16:5, Luk.7:14, Act.2:17' (LXX) Act.23:18, 22, 1Jn.2:13-14; of an attendant (cf. Gen.14:24, al.) : Act.5:10.†
(AS)