nostosn.

Brit.

/ˈnɒstɒs/, U.S.

/ˈnɑstɑs/

Inflections: Plural nosti, nostoi.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek νόστος.

Etymology: < ancient Greek νόστος return home, in Hellenistic Greek as plural Νόστοι also the title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle dealing with the return of the Greeks from the Trojan War < an ablaut variant of the base of νεῖσθαι to return home (cognate with Sanskrit nas- to consort together, astam home, Old English nesan to escape, be saved, survive, Gothic -nisan (in ganisan to be saved, healed), and perhaps Tocharian B nes- to be) + -τος, suffix forming nouns.

A homecoming or homeward journey as a literary subject or topos; spec. the return of Odysseus and the other Greek heroes of the Trojan War, as narrated esp. in the Odyssey. Also (in extended use): the conclusion of a literary work.In quots. 1883 and 1901, Nost(o)i is the title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle dealing with the return of the Greeks from the Trojan War.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home > a homecoming

homecomeOE

homecomingc1405

nostos1910

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with specific subject

human story1753

family history1780

snake story1826

birth story1837

creation story1860

nostos1910

success story1925

microhistory1969

plutography1985

1883 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 4 319 A passage of Pausanias (x. 28, 7), mentions, as the poems which contain descriptions of the infernal regions, the Odyssey, the Minyas, and the Nostoi.

1901 D. B. Munro Homer's Odyssey Bks. XIII–XXIV 380 We may regard the Nosti as a tragic Odyssey.]

1910 Classical Rev. 24 203/1 It is evident the age of the Odyssey..was enthusiastically interested in nostoi. So much is this so that, at one point,..the Odyssey, itself a nostos, contains the Nostos of Menelaus, and this again the Nostos, or Doom, of Agamemnon.

1920 J. Joyce Let. 12 July (1957) I. 143 A great part of the Nostos or close was written several years ago and the style is quite plain.

1924 T. W. Allen Homer 333 I have found a reference to their Nostos in Plutarch.

1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. iii. 159 It is rare, in literature as in life, to find even a domesticated animal peacefully living through its full span of life... The exceptions, such as Odysseus' dog, are appropriate to the theme of nostos or full close of a cyclical movement.

1968 C. R. Beye Iliad, Odyssey & Epic Trad. v. 161 There is a hint in the Odyssey that epics of nostoi were currently fashionable.

1994 Amer. Spectator Mar. 67/1 James's greatest travel writing was stimulated not by the Europe where he passed so much of his life but by a return, a nostos, a homecoming, to the land of his birth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nostos
释义	nostosn. Brit. /ˈnɒstɒs/, U.S. /ˈnɑstɑs/ Inflections: Plural nosti, nostoi. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek νόστος. Etymology: < ancient Greek νόστος return home, in Hellenistic Greek as plural Νόστοι also the title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle dealing with the return of the Greeks from the Trojan War < an ablaut variant of the base of νεῖσθαι to return home (cognate with Sanskrit nas- to consort together, astam home, Old English nesan to escape, be saved, survive, Gothic -nisan (in ganisan to be saved, healed), and perhaps Tocharian B nes- to be) + -τος, suffix forming nouns. A homecoming or homeward journey as a literary subject or topos; spec. the return of Odysseus and the other Greek heroes of the Trojan War, as narrated esp. in the Odyssey. Also (in extended use): the conclusion of a literary work.In quots. 1883 and 1901, Nost(o)i is the title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle dealing with the return of the Greeks from the Trojan War. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > going home > a homecoming homecomeOE homecomingc1405 nostos1910 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with specific subject human story1753 family history1780 snake story1826 birth story1837 creation story1860 nostos1910 success story1925 microhistory1969 plutography1985 1883 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 4 319 A passage of Pausanias (x. 28, 7), mentions, as the poems which contain descriptions of the infernal regions, the Odyssey, the Minyas, and the Nostoi. 1901 D. B. Munro Homer's Odyssey Bks. XIII–XXIV 380 We may regard the Nosti as a tragic Odyssey.] 1910 Classical Rev. 24 203/1 It is evident the age of the Odyssey..was enthusiastically interested in nostoi. So much is this so that, at one point,..the Odyssey, itself a nostos, contains the Nostos of Menelaus, and this again the Nostos, or Doom, of Agamemnon. 1920 J. Joyce Let. 12 July (1957) I. 143 A great part of the Nostos or close was written several years ago and the style is quite plain. 1924 T. W. Allen Homer 333 I have found a reference to their Nostos in Plutarch. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. iii. 159 It is rare, in literature as in life, to find even a domesticated animal peacefully living through its full span of life... The exceptions, such as Odysseus' dog, are appropriate to the theme of nostos or full close of a cyclical movement. 1968 C. R. Beye Iliad, Odyssey & Epic Trad. v. 161 There is a hint in the Odyssey that epics of nostoi were currently fashionable. 1994 Amer. Spectator Mar. 67/1 James's greatest travel writing was stimulated not by the Europe where he passed so much of his life but by a return, a nostos, a homecoming, to the land of his birth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910
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