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Etymology
Often connected with 🇨🇬 from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Others have connected, 🇨🇬, , and 🇨🇬.

For Beekes, the word is “no doubt ”.

Noun

 * 1) darkness, often referring to evening dusk or night

Usage notes
In Homer, the word is only used in the nominative and accusative. The other inflected forms, which were used later, are irregular. The forms and  belong to the neuter declension in, as if the nominative were , and the other two belong to the neuter declension in  and the feminine first declension –  and  – as if the nominative were  or. Thus, they belong to the first and third declensions.