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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

  • ἐν ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ νεὼσ ὑπὸ ἀλλοφύλων ἐβεβηλώθη, συνέβη κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡμέραν τὸν καθαρισμὸν γενέσθαι τοῦ ναοῦ, τῇ πέμπτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνόσ, ὅσ ἐστι Χασελεῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:5)
  • καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα γελοιότατόν ἐστιν, ὁπόταν τισ ἄφνω ἀκούσῃ ὅτι ὁ Ἡρακλῆσ μὲν θεὸσ ἀπεδείχθη, ὁ δὲ Εὐρυσθεύσ, ὃσ ἐπέταττεν αὐτῷ, τέθνηκεν, καὶ πλησίον Ἡρακλέουσ νεὼσ οἰκέτου ὄντοσ καὶ Εὐρυσθέωσ τάφοσ τοῦ δεσπότου αὐτοῦ, καὶ πάλιν ἐν Θήβαισ Διόνυσοσ μὲν θεόσ, οἱ δ’ ἀνεψιοὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ Πενθεὺσ καὶ ὁ Ἀκταίων καὶ ὁ Λέαρχοσ ἀνθρώπων ἁπάντων κακοδαιμονέστατοι. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 7:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐν τούτοισ τὸ σύντομον ποιεῖ τὸν λόγον τοιοῦτον, ὡσ ἐπὶ τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίου Βρασίδα τέθηκεν, ὅτε μαχόμενοσ περὶ Πύλον ἀπὸ τῆσ νεὼσ τραυματίασ γενόμενοσ ἐξέπεσεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 45)
  • πεσόντοσ δὲ αὐτοῦ ἔξω τῆσ νεὼσ ἐπὶ τὰ προέχοντα μέρη τῆσ εἰρεσίασ . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 4 1:3)
  • εὐθὺσ οὖν νεώσ τε ἀνέστησαν αἱ πόλεισ καὶ τεμένη καθιδρύετο καὶ βωμοὶ καὶ θυσίαι καὶ ἑορταὶ τῷ καινῷ τούτῳ θεῷ ἐπετελοῦντο, καὶ ὁ μέγιστοσ ὁρ́κοσ ἦν ἅπασιν Ἡφαιστίων. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. a ship

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