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ναυπηγικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναυπηγικός ναυπηγική ναυπηγικόν

Structure: ναυπηγικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from nauphgo/s

Sense

  1. skilled in shipbuilding, the art of shipbuilding

Examples

  • ὅ τι δὲ τούτων ἕκαστον δύναται, σαφέστερον ἐρῶ χρησάμενοσ εἰκόσι τῶν δημιουργικῶν τεχνῶν τισιν ἃσ ἅπαντεσ ἴσασιν, οἰκοδομικῇ λέγω καὶ ναυπηγικῇ καὶ ταῖσ παραπλησίαισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 65)
  • ἡ μὲν οἰκοδομικὴ καὶ ναυπηγικὴ ποιητικαί εἰσιν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 83:3)
  • καὶ ἡ ναυπηγική· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 95:9)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in shipbuilding

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

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