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νήιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήιος νήιᾱ νήιον

Structure: νηι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nau=s

Sense

  1. of or for a ship, ship-

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ τὴν μὲν θεὸσ αὖτισ ἀπέτραπεν, ἷζε δ’ ὕπερθεν νηίου ἀφλάστοιο μετήοροσ ἀίξασα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 19:6)
  • ὕψι δὲ λαχνῆέν τε κάρη καὶ στήθε’ ἀείρασ νειόθεν ἐκ λαγόνων στιβαρῇ ἐπορέξατο χειρὶ νηίου ὁλκαίοιο, καὶ ἰάχεν ἐσσυμένοισιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:33)
  • σῆμα δ’ ἔπεστι καὶ ὀψιγόνοισιν ἰδέσθαι, νηίου ἐκ κοτίνοιο φάλαγξ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 14:7)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a ship

Related

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

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