ναῦς
See also: ναυς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- νηῦς (nēûs) – Ionic, Epic
- νᾱός (nāós) – Doric, genitive
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *náus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, cognate with Latin nāvis, Persian ناو (nâv), and Sanskrit नौ (nau, “ship”), नाव (nāva, “ship”). The earliest attested reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀙𐀄𐀈𐀗 (na-u-do-mo, “shipbuilders”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nâu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /naʍs/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /naɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /nafs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /nafs/
Noun
ναῦς • (naûs) f (genitive νεώς); third declension
- a ship
Declension
Irregular declension of ἡ ναῦς; τῆς νεώς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ναῦς hē naûs | τὼ νῆε tṑ nêe | αἱ νῆες hai nêes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νεώς tês neṓs | τοῖν νεοῖν toîn neoîn | τῶν νεῶν tôn neôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νηΐ têi nēḯ | τοῖν νεοῖν toîn neoîn | ταῖς ναυσί / ναυσίν taîs nausí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ναῦν tḕn naûn | τὼ νῆε tṑ nêe | τᾱ̀ς ναῦς tā̀s naûs | ||||||||||
Vocative | ναῦ naû | νῆε nêe | νῆες nêes | ||||||||||
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Irregular declension of ᾱ̔ ναῦς; τᾶς νᾱός (Doric)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | ᾱ̔ ναῦς hā naûs | ταὶ νᾶες taì nâes | |||||||||||
Genitive | τᾶς νᾱός tâs nāós | τᾶν νᾱῶν tân nāôn | |||||||||||
Dative | τᾷ νᾱΐ tâi nāḯ | ταῖς ναυσί / ναυσίν / νᾱ́εσσι / νᾱ́εσσιν taîs nausí(n) / nā́essi(n) | |||||||||||
Accusative | τᾱ̀ν ναῦν tā̀n naûn | τᾱ̀ς νᾶᾰς tā̀s nâas | |||||||||||
Vocative | ναῦς naûs | νᾶες nâes | |||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπίνειον (epíneion)
- ναύαρχος (naúarkhos)
- ναῦλος (naûlos)
- ναυπηγός (naupēgós)
- ναυσία (nausía)
- ναυσικλειτός (nausikleitós)
- ναυσικλυτός (nausiklutós)
- ναύτης (naútēs)
- ναυτία (nautía)
- ναυτικός (nautikós)
- ναυτίλος (nautílos)
- ναυτίς (nautís)
- νήϊος (nḗïos)
Descendants
- Greek: ναυς (nafs)
References
- “ναῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ναῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ναῦς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ναῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ναῦς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3491 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- boat idem, page 87.
- ship idem, page 766.
- vessel idem, page 949.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 275, 275 D