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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

  • Μετὰ δ’ ὀλίγασ ἡμέρασ τῆσ Ιἑριχοῦντοσ συμφορᾶσ πέμπει τρισχιλίουσ ὁπλίτασ Ιἠσοῦσ εἰσ Ναϊὰν πόλιν ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ιἑριχοῦντοσ κειμένην αἱρήσοντασ, οἳ συμβαλόντων αὐτοῖσ τῶν Ναϊητῶν τραπέντεσ ἀποβάλλουσιν ἄνδρασ ἓξ καὶ τριάκοντα. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 48:1)
  • Ιἠσοῦσ δὲ ἁγνίσασ τὸν στρατὸν ἐξῆγεν ἐπὶ τὴν Ναϊὰν αὐτὸσ καὶ νυκτὸσ τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐνέδραισ προλοχίσασ ὑπὸ τὸν ὄρθρον συμβάλλει τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 61:1)

Related

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

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