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Ναϊάς

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ναϊάς

Structure: Ναϊ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: na/w

Sense

  1. a Naiad, a river nymph, a sea-nymph)

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἔξω βλέπουσι ναυτιῶντεσ καὶ ταραττόμενοι, μένειν δὲ καὶ χρῆσθαι τοῖσ παροῦσιν ἀνάγκην ἔχοντεσ λευκᾶσ καθύπερθε γαλάνασ εὐπρόσωποι σφᾶσ παρήισαν ἔρωτεσ ναϊάσ κλαΐδοσ χαραξιπόντου δαιμονίαν ἐσ ὕβριν. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 2 3:1)
  • ἢ Παλλάδοσ ἐν πόλει τὰσ καλλιδίφρουσ Ἀθα‐ ναίασ ἐν κροκέῳ πέπλῳ ζεύξομαι ἆρα πώλουσ ἐν δαιδαλέαισι ποικίλλουσ’ ἀνθοκρόκοισι πήναισ, ἢ Τιτάνων γενεὰν τὰν Ζεὺσ ἀμφιπύρῳ κοιμί‐ ζει φλογμῷ Κρονίδασ; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, strophe 21)
  • ἰὼ γένοσ ναί̈ασ ἀρωγὸν τέχνασ, ἅλιον ὃσ ἐπέβασ ἑλίσσων πλάταν, σέ τοι σέ τοι μόνον δέδορκα πημονὰν ἐπαρκέσοντ’· (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 11)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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