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νεώριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεώριον νεώριου

Structure: νεωρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: newro/s

Sense

  1. a place were ships are taken care of, a dockyard

Declension

Second 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

  • μαρτύρομαι ὑμᾶσ, ἀτελὲσ μένει τὸ τεῖχοσ καὶ τὰ νεώρια· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 9:6)
  • τὸ νεώριον δ’ αὖ κωπέων πλατουμένων, τύλων ψοφούντων, θαλαμιῶν τροπουμένων, αὐλῶν, κελευστῶν, νιγλάρων, συριγμάτων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:4)
  • αὕτη γὰρ ἐμπρήσειεν ἂν τὸ νεώριον. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:27)
  • νεώριον θρυαλλίσ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:28)
  • ἐνθεὶσ ἂν ἐσ τίφην ἀνὴρ Βοιώτιοσ ἅψασ ἄν ἐσπέμψειεν ἐσ τὸ νεώριον δι’ ὑδρορρόασ, βορέαν ἐπιτηρήσασ μέγαν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:31)
  • καίτοι σκαιὸν ἐνίοισ τοῦτο ἐφαίνετο καὶ αὔθαδεσ, ὅτι τῶν ὑπάτων καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν παρόντων οὔτε ἀπέβη πρὸσ αὐτούσ οὔτε ἐπέσχε τὸν πλοῦν, ἀλλὰ ῥοθίῳ τὴν ὄχθην παρεξελαύνων ἐπὶ νεὼσ ἑξήρουσ βασιλικῆσ οὐκ ἀνῆκε πρότερον ἢ καθορμίσαι τὸν στόλον εἰσ τὸ νεώριον. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 39 2:1)

Related

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

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