ναῦς, ἡ,
(see. below) ship, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+] (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in NT, [[ NT.Acts.27.41, πλοῖον being generally used)] NT]; ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at the ships, i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.688, 11.659 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῆες μακραί ships of war, built long and taper for speed, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.41, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-ships, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.163, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νέες alone, ={τριήρεις}, opposed to πεντηκόντεροι, [[ [prev. author] 8.1 ] Refs]; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 380.] Refs 4th c.BC+]— Attic dialect declension ναῦς, νεώς, νηΐ, ναῦν, dual genitive νεοῖν, plural νῆες, νεῶν (νηῶν is variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.15), ναυσί, ναῦς] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later writers, nominative plural ναῦς, accusative plural νῆας, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.13, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.2.4, etc., compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 147] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:— Epic dialect νηῦς, νηός, νηΐ, νῆα, plural νῆες, νηῶν, νηυσί or νήεσσι, νῆας (but also genitive and accusative singular νεός, νέα [the latter as monosyllable in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.283], _plural_ νέες, νεῶν, νέεσσι, νέας)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect genitive and dative plural ναῦφι, -φιν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.794, 16.281, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.498 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in late Epic dialect, nominative νῆυς uncertain reading in [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.104, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 440.17 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; accusative singular and plural νηῦν, νηῦς, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1358, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.3, Dem. Bith. 4.6: Hdn.Gr. 1.401, 2.675, 553 also gives νεῦς, νεΐ (variant in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.184), and νευσί (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 27, “Sammelb.” 5829)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect νηῦς, νεός, νηΐ, νέα, plural νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν epigram in [[ “IG” 12(8).683 (Thasos, 6th-5th c.BC)), νέας (but νηός 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 54 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; νηός is frequently in codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, νηῶν 7.160)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Doric dialect ναῦς (νᾶς[[ Hdn.Gr. 1.400), νᾱός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.185, +others, νᾱΐ [prev. author] “O.” 13.54, +others (νᾷ] Refs 5th c.BC+] perhaps to be read in [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 23 iii 27), ναῦν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.245, “fragment” 234 (νᾶν Hdn.Gr. 1.328, νᾶα 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.89); _plural_ νᾶες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.4, +others, ναῶν [prev. author] “P.” 1.74, ναυσί, ναυσίν, [prev. author] “N.” 7.29, “P.” 3.68 (νάεσσι [prev. work] 4.56), νᾶας] Refs 7th c.BC+] falsa lectio in [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.17:—_Aeolic dialect_ _sing._ _genitive_ νᾶος, _dative_ νᾶϊ, _plural_ _dative_ νάεσσι, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 19, 18, 79, _genitive_ νᾱων [prev. author] “Supp.” 12.9, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.2:—Trag. commonly use _Doric dialect_ forms in Lyric poetry, _Attic dialect_ in dialogue (but sometimes ναός, ναῶν, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 62, “Pers.” 340, etc.)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; the Epic dialect forms νηός [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 761, νηῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1485, νῆας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 744 (Lyric poetry), νηυσίν [prev. author] “Pers.” 370 (codex M)] Refs 5th c.BC+] are probably corrupt. (Cf. Sanskrit naús, Latin nāvis, etc.)