Lexical Definition

‎νέος‎ néos (neh'-os) new ^G:A
including the comparative ; a primary word

new, young.

• "new", i.e. (of persons) youthful, or (of things) fresh
• figuratively, regenerate

Abbott-Smith

νέος, -α, -ον, [in LXX for נַעַר (Ge 37:2, Ex 33:11, al.), חָדָשׁ (Le 23:16, Nu 28:26, al.), etc.; compar. -ώτερος for קָטֹן, צָעִיר, etc.;]
1. young, youthful: Tit 2:4.
2. new (prop., in respect of time; v.s. καινός): οἶνος (cf. οἶ. καινός, Mt 26:29), Mt 9:17, Mk 2:22, 39]; φύραμα (fig.), I Co 5:7; διαθήκη (cf. καινὴ δ., He 9:15), He 12:24; metaph., ἄνθρωπος (cf. καινὸς ἀ, Eph 2:15), Col 3:10.
3. Compar., -ώτερος, -α, -ον, younger: Lk 15:12, 13 22:26, Jo 21:18; pl., οἱ ν., Ac 5:6 (Rackham, in l.), I Ti 5:11, Tit 2:6; opp. to πρεσβύτεροι, I Ti 5:1, I Pe 5:5; αἱ ν., I Ti 5:2, 14.
4. Νέα Πόλις, Neapolis: Ac 16:11 (Rec., Νεάπολις, q.v.)
SYN.: καινός, q.v.

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

νέος, νέα,

Ionic dialect νέη, νέον; Ionic dialect νεῖος (which see): [feminine νέας as monosyllable, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; contraction feminine νῆ [Refs 6th c.BC+]

__1 young, youthful (of children, youths, and of men at least as old as [Refs 8th c.BC+]youths, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: later mostly with Article, οἱ νέοι [Refs 5th c.BC+] 'boys will be boys', [Refs 4th c.AD+]; οἱ ν., corporately organized, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to γεραιός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐθὺς ἐκ νέου ἐθίζειν from youth upwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ νέας (i.e. ψυχῆς) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ν., ={νεότης}, youth (in the abstract), [Refs 5th c.BC+] all young creatures, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of minors, νέου ὄντος ἔτι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νεώτερος.
__1.b rarely of animals and plants, ὄρπηκες, ἔρνος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 suited to a youth, youthful, ἄεθλοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ν. φροντίς youthful spirits, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, ἄφρων νέος τε [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II new, fresh, ν. θάλαμος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; λίνον [Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἡ ν. (i.e. σελήνη) the new moon, especially in phrase ἕνη καὶ νέα, see at {ἕνος} [Refs]; but μηνὸς τῇ ν. (i.e. ἡμέρᾳ) on the first day of the month, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in this sense rarely of persons, ὁ ν. ταγὸς μακάρων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare νεώτερος.
__II.2 of events, etc., new, with collateral notion of unexpected, strange, untoward, evil, τί ν.; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῶν τι βουλεύῃ ν.; [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III neuter νέον as adverb of Time, lately, just now, opposed to both to distant past and present, παῖδα ν. γεγαῶτα [Refs 8th c.BC+] adverb νεωτέρως,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative νεώτατα most recently, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐκ νέας, Ionic dialect αὖτις ἐκ νέης, anew, afresh, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV. the degrees of comparative are νεώτερος, νεώτατος, see at {νεώτερος}: νεαίτερος is corrupt for νεαίρετος in [Refs 4th c.BC+], cf. Sanskrit návas, Latin novus, etc.)