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ναῦς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναῦς νεώς

Structure: ναυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a ship

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ ναῦν ὑπὲρ οὗ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν ἐν Γασιὼν Γαβὲρ τὴν οὖσαν ἐχομένην Αἰλὰθ ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλουσ τῆσ ἐσχάτησ θαλάσσησ ἐν γῇ Ἐδώμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 9:16)
  • ζ καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἰωσαφὰτ ἐποίησε ναῦν εἰσ Θαρσὶσ πορεύεσθαι εἰσ Σωφὶρ ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον. καὶ οὐκ ἐπορεύθη, ὅτι συνετρίβη ἡ ναῦσ ἐν Γασιὼν Γαβέρ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 16:34)
  • Ωσπερ γὰρ ἄριστοσ κυβερνήτησ ὁ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἡμῶν Ἐλεαζάρου λογισμὸσ πηδαλιουχῶν τὴν τῆσ εὐσεβείασ ναῦν ἐν τῷ τῶν παθῶν πελάγει (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:1)
  • πολέμιον αἷμα καὶ Μακεδονικὸν πῦρ εἰσ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὑποδέχεσθαι ἦν οὐ καλόν, οὐδὲ σιωπᾶν καὶ καρτερεῖν ὁρῶντα καταδυομένην ὥσπερ ναῦν τὴν πόλιν. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 27:1)
  • κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὴ καὶ ὁ κυβερνᾶν οὐκ εἰδὼσ καὶ ἱππεύειν μὴ μεμελετηκὼσ εἰ ὁ μὲν ναῦν καλλίστην παραλάβοι, τοῖσ πᾶσι καὶ εἰσ κάλλοσ καὶ εἰσ ἀσφάλειαν κάλλιστα ἐξειργασμένην, ὁ δὲ ἵππον κτήσαιτο Μῆδον ἢ κενταυρίδην ἢ κοππαφόρον, ἐλέγχοιτο ἄν, οἶμαι, ἑκάτεροσ οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὅ τι χρήσαιτο ἑκατέρῳ, ἐπινεύεισ καὶ τοῦτο; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:11)

Synonyms

  1. a ship

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