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νηίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηίτης νηίτου

Structure: νηιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: nau=s

Sense

  1. consisting of ships

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νηίτης νηίτᾱ νηίται
Genitive νηίτου νηίταιν νηιτῶν
Dative νηίτῃ νηίταιν νηίταις
Accusative νηίτην νηίτᾱ νηίτᾱς
Vocative νηίτα νηίτᾱ νηίται

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

  • οὐδέ κε φαίησ τόσσον νηίτην στόλον ἔμμεναι, ἀλλ’ οἰωνῶν ἰλαδὸν ἄσπετον ἔθνοσ ἐπιβρομέειν πελάγεσσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 5:3)
  • κόσμου νηίτην δέχομαι στόλον εἴσιδε Ῥώμην ἐγγύθεν, εἰ ταύτησ μέτρον ἔχω λιμένα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 379 1:1)
  • Ὅτε δὴ τὰσ Συρακούσασ Ἐπικύδησ τε καὶ Ἱπποκράτησ κατέλαβον, ἑαυτούσ τε καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ τῶν πολιτῶν τῆσ Ῥωμαίων φιλίασ ἀλλοτριώσαντεσ, οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι προσπεπτωκυίασ αὐτοῖσ ἤδη καὶ τῆσ Ιἑρωνύμου τοῦ Συρακοσίων τυράννου καταστροφῆσ Ἄππιον Κλαύδιον ἀντιστράτηγον καταστήσαντεσ αὐτῷ μὲν τὴν πεζὴν συνέστησαν δύναμιν, τὸν δὲ νηί̈την αὐτοῖσ στόλον ἐπετρόπευσε Μάρκοσ Κλαύδιοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. consisting of ships

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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