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ναυμαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναυμαχία

Structure: ναυμαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sea-fight

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

  • τὰ δ’ αὖ τελευταῖα αὐτῆσ ἐστιν ἴδια, αἱ περὶ Κύπρον καὶ Παμφυλίαν ναυμαχίαι καὶ πεζομαχίαι καὶ ὁ πολὺσ δρόμοσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 78:12)
  • ναυμαχίαι μὲν γὰρ καὶ πεζομαχίαι καὶ νόμοι καὶ πολιτεῖαι καὶ φρονήματα καὶ φωναὶ καὶ πάνθ’ ὡσ εἰπεῖν ἐπέλιπεν, ἀντεῖχε δὲ τὰ μυστήρια. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:2)
  • ἦν δὲ τρία μέρη τῆσ ὅλησ συμπλοκῆσ, καὶ τρεῖσ ναυμαχίαι συνέστησαν πολὺ κεχωρισμέναι τοῖσ τόποισ ἀλλήλων· (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 28 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sea-fight

Related

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

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