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ναυκράτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναυκράτης ναυκράτες

Structure: ναυκρατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: krate/w

Sense

  1. master or mistress of the seas

Examples

  • καὶ Ἀρχεδίκη δ’ ἦν ἐκ τῆσ Ναυκράτεωσ καὶ αὐτὴ ἑταίρα καλή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 69 2:2)
  • Ἀπολλώνιοσ δὲ ὁ ̔ Ῥόδιοσ ἢ Ναυκρατίτησ ἐν Ναυκράτεωσ κτίσει τὸν Πομπίλον φησὶν ἄνθρωπον πρότερον ὄντα μεταβαλεῖν εἰσ ἰχθὺν διά τινα Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἔρωτα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 191)

Synonyms

  1. master or mistress of the seas

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

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