LogeionPerseus analysis of οὐδέν:
οὐδείς (not one): neut nom/voc/acc sg
LSJ entry
οὐδείς
οὐδείς,
fem. οὐδεμίᾰ (never nom. acc. -μίη, -μίην,
since οὐδεμιῇ is prob. in Call. Aet.Oxy. 2080.56,
rarely οὐδʼ ἴα Sapph. 69,
Mosch. 4.40),
neut. οὐδέν (declined and accentuated like εἷς, μία, ἕν), A. not one,
i.e. no one, none,
used by Hom.,
Hes.,
and Pi. (who prefer οὔτις)
only in neut. nom. and acc. οὐδέν,
exc. in the phrase τὸ ὃν μένος οὐδενὶ εἴκων Il. 22.459,
al.; οὐδείς is found in B. Fr. 28;
but all genders and cases are common in all other writers, Hdt. 1.32,
33,
etc.: rare in pl., no set of persons or things, And. 1.23 (dub. cj.), X. Lac. 3.1;
πρὸς οὐδένας τῶν Ἑλλήνων D. 18.23 (v.l.), cf. 19.31,66,312,
24.214,
27.7;
οὐδένων εἰσὶ βελτίους,
i.e. οὔ τινων ἄλλων,
Id. 2.17 (cf. οὐδενὸς βελτίους Pl. Prt. 324d):
dat. pl. οὐδέσιν Paus. 3.24.3;
for another sense of the pl., v. infr. II.3.—In Ion. the pl. is usu. οὐδαμοί.
III. neut. οὐδέν as Adv.,
not at all, naught,
ἄριστον Ἀχαιῶν οὐ. ἔτισεν Il. 1.412,
cf. 24.370,
Hdt. 5.34,
Th. 8.22,
etc.; so οὐδέν τι X. Mem. 1.2.42,
etc.; οὐ. τι πάντως Hdt. 5.65:
in answers, nothing, never mind, no matter,
E. Med. 64,
IT 781,
Ar. Nu. 694;
οὐδέν γε not at all,
Id. Av. 1360,
etc.; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον, οὐδὲν ἧσσον, οὐδὲν ὕστερος, v. μάλα II.5, ἥσσων III, ὕστερος A. I. B. REMARKS: the more emphatic and literal sense, not even one,
i.e. none whatever,
belongs to the full form, οὐδὲ εἷς, οὐδὲ μία, οὐδὲ ἕν,
which is never elided, even in Com. (v. Ar. Ra. 927,
Lys. 1045 (lyr.), Pl. 138,
1115), but freq. has a Particle inserted between, cf. οὐδέ B. —Zen. (in EM 639.17)
and others wrongly assume οὐδείς as a compd. not of οὐδέ and εἷς,
but of οὐ and δείς (q. v.). (Later οὐθείς,
q. v.)