Strong G3491ναῦς

ναῦς, ἡ,
(see. below) ship, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)] (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in NT, [NT (NT.Acts.27.41, πλοῖον being generally used))]; ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at the ships, i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.688, 11.659)]; νῆες μακραί ships of war, built long and taper for speed, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.41, etc.)]; opposed to νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.163, etc.)]; νέες alone, ={τριήρεις}, opposed to πεντηκόντεροι, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.1)]; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.5)]; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 380.)]— Attic dialect declension ναῦς, νεώς, νηΐ, ναῦν, dual genitive νεοῖν, plural νῆες, νεῶν (νηῶν is variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.15), ναυσί, ναῦς)]; in later writers, nominative plural ναῦς, accusative plural νῆας, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.13, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.2.4, etc., compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 147)]:— 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 [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.283], _plural_ νέες, νεῶν, νέεσσι, νέας))]; Epic dialect genitive and dative plural ναῦφι, -φιν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.794, 16.281, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.498)]; in late Epic dialect, nominative νῆυς uncertain reading in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.104, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 440.17)]; accusative singular and plural νηῦν, νηῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (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))]:—Ionic dialect νηῦς, νεός, νηΐ, νέα, plural νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν epigram in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(8).683 (Thasos, 6th-5th c.BC)), νέας (but νηός 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 54)]; νηός is frequently in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, νηῶν 7.160))]:—Doric dialect ναῦς (νᾶς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Hdn.Gr. 1.400), νᾱός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.185, +others, νᾱΐ [prev. author] “O.” 13.54, +others (νᾷ)] perhaps to be read in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (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)] falsa lectio in [Refs 7th c.BC+ (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.))]; the Epic dialect forms νηός [Refs 5th c.BC+ (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))] are probably corrupt. (Cf. Sanskrit naús, Latin nāvis, etc.)