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ναύπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναύπορος ναύπορον

Structure: ναυπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. naupo/ros

Sense

  1. ship-frequented

Examples

  • ἐμοὶ δ’ ἔδοξε τὸν μὲν ἐν Τροίᾳ μόρον Ἑλένησ ἐᾶσαι, ναυπόρῳ δ’ ἄγειν πλάτῃ Ἑλληνίδ’ ἐσ γῆν κᾆτ’ ἐκεῖ δοῦναι κτανεῖν, ποινὰσ ὅσοισ τεθνᾶσ’ ἐν Ἰλίῳ φίλοι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode8)
  • λιπὼν δὲ λίμνην Δηλίαν τε χοιράδα, κέλσασ ἐπ’ ἀκτὰσ ναυπόρουσ τὰσ Παλλάδοσ, ἐσ τήνδε γαῖαν ἦλθε Παρνησοῦ θ’ ἕδρασ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:6)
  • ὧσ Ἀργὼ λίμνησ στόμα ναύπορον ἐξερέουσα ἀμφεπόλει δηναιὸν ἐπὶ χρόνον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 25:4)

Synonyms

  1. ship-frequented

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

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