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See also: ναυς

ναῦς • ‎(naûs) f ‎(genitive νεώς); third declension

Irregular declension of ἡ ναῦς; τῆς νεώς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ναῦς	τὼ νῆε	αἱ νῆες
Genitive	τῆς νεώς	τοῖν νεοῖν	τῶν νεῶν
Dative	τῇ νηΐ	τοῖν νεοῖν	ταῖς ναυσί(ν)
Accusative	τὴν ναῦν	τὼ νῆε	τᾱ̀ς ναῦς
Vocative	ναῦ	νῆε	νῆες
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Irregular declension of ᾱ̔ ναῦς; τᾶς νᾱός (Doric)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ᾱ̔ ναῦς	ταὶ νᾶες
Genitive	τᾶς νᾱός	τᾶν νᾱῶν
Dative	τᾷ νᾱΐ	ταῖς ναυσί(ν), νᾱ́εσσι(ν)
Accusative	τᾱ̀ν ναῦν	τᾱ̀ς νᾶᾰς
Vocative		νᾶες
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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

From Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, cognate with Latin nāvis, Persian ‎(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”).