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νήιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήιος νήιᾱ νήιον

Structure: νηι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nau=s

Sense

of or for a ship, ship-

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	νήιος	νηίᾱ	νήιον
	Genitive	νηίου	νηίᾱς	νηίου
	Dative	νηίῳ	νηίᾱͅ	νηίῳ
	Accusative	νήιον	νηίᾱν	νήιον
	Vocative	νήιε	νηίᾱ	νήιον
Dual	N/A/V	νηίω	νηίᾱ	νηίω
Dual	G/D	νηίοιν	νηίαιν	νηίοιν
Plural	Nominative	νήιοι	νήιαι	νήια
	Genitive	νηίων	νηιῶν	νηίων
	Dative	νηίοις	νηίαις	νηίοις
	Accusative	νηίους	νηίᾱς	νήια
	Vocative	νήιοι	νήιαι	νήια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	νήιος νηίου	νηιότερος νηιοτέρου	νηιότατος νηιοτάτου
Adverb	νηίως	νηιότερον	νηιότατα

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

κολώνησ αὔτανδρον φλέξειν δόρυ νήιον, ὄφρ’ ἀλεγεινὴν ὕβριν ἀποφλύξωσιν ὑπέρβια μηχανόωντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 10:30)
ἀλλὰ καὶ ὣσ ἀπρὶξ δόρυ νήιον ἀμφιδακοῦσαι, ἄπνοον ὡμάρτευν τάρβοσ Ἀχαιμενίοισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 118 1:1)
ἐγὼ δ’ ἐφύπερθεν ἐρεισθεὶσ δίνεον, ὡσ ὅτε τισ τρυπῷ δόρυ νήιον ἀνὴρ τρυπάνῳ, οἱ δέ τ’ ἔνερθεν ὑποσσείουσιν ἱμάντι ἁψάμενοι ἑκάτερθε, τὸ δὲ τρέχει ἐμμενὲσ αἰεί. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 38:9)
ὅταν δὲ οὕτω φῇ ἡμεῖσ ἐξ Ἰθάκησ ὑπὸ Νηίου εἰλήλουθμεν, ἄδηλον, εἴτε τὸ αὐτὸ τῷ Νηρίτῳ λέγει τὸ Νήιον εἴτε ἕτερον ἢ ὄροσ ἢ χωρίον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 15:10)
αἰεί τοι κραδίη πέλεκυσ ὥσ ἐστιν ἀτειρὴσ ὅσ τ’ εἶσιν διὰ δουρὸσ ὑπ’ ἀνέροσ ὅσ ῥά τε τέχνῃ νήϊον ἐκτάμνῃσιν, ὀφέλλει δ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἐρωήν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 9:3)
ἤριπε δ’ ὡσ ὅτε τισ δρῦσ ἤριπεν ἢ ἀχερωὶ̈σ ἠὲ πίτυσ βλωθρή, τήν τ’ οὔρεσι τέκτονεσ ἄνδρεσ ἐξέταμον πελέκεσσι νεήκεσι νήϊον εἶναι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 39:6)

Synonyms

of or for a ship
- νηοφόρος (bearing ships)
- ναυσίστονος (lamentable to ships)
- ναύφρακτος (ship-fenced)
- ἐπινήϊος (on board ship)
- χιλιόναυς (of a thousand ships)
- χιλιοναύτης (with or of a thousand ships)
- ναυσικλειτός (famed for ships)
- ναυπόρος (ship-speeding)
- ναύπορος (ship-frequented)
- πρυμναῖος (of a ship-stern)

εὔδμητος (well-built)
ἔχμα (that which holds)
κάπριος (a wild boar)
ἀκόρητος (insatiate)
λίς (a lion)
ὕπαιθα (out under)
ἀκαχμένος (sharpened)
ἀρηίθοος (swift as Ares)
πέλωρ (a portent)
ὑπένερθε (underneath)
κραδάω (to shake)
αἰζηός (strong)
ἑπταβόειος (of seven bulls'-hides)
καρφαλέος (dry)
μᾶκος (Alternative spelling of μῆκος ‎)
μετήορος (lifted off the ground)
παπταίνω (to look earnestly)
ἰλαδόν (in troops)
παναίολος (all-variegated)
κύδιμος ()
ὠκύαλος (sea-swift)
δαφοινός (blood-red)
προτέρωσε (toward the front)
Λίγυς (one of the Ligures)
ἐξόπιθεν (behind)
ἀγοστός (the flat of the hand)
ἀλεγεινός (hard)
δυσκέλαδος (ill-sounding)
πολυπίδακος ()
εἶθαρ (at once)

Similar forms

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

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of or for a ship

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νήιος

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of or for a ship

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