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ναυφθορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναυφθορία

Structure: ναυφθορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from nau/fqoros

Sense

  1. shipwreck, loss of ships

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

  • ἀντὶ τάφου λιτοῖο θὲσ Ἑλλάδα, θὲσ δ’ ἐπὶ ταύταν δούρατα, βαρβαρικᾶσ σύμβολα ναυφθορίασ, καὶ τύμβῳ κρηπῖδα περίγραφε Περσικὸν Ἄρη καὶ Ξέρξην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 731)

Synonyms

  1. shipwreck

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

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