- ναός
- νᾱός, ὁ, [dialect] Dor., Thess., etc. form, Leg.Gort.1.42, IG9(2).517.45 (Larissa, iii B.C.), etc., used also in Trag. (even dialogue) to the exclusion of νεώς, S.El.8, E.Hipp.31, al., exc. A.Pers.810, rare in [dialect] Att. Prose and Com., Pl.R.394a, Lg.738c, 814b, Arist.EN1174a24, Posidipp. 29.1, more freq. in X., HG2.3.20, An.5.3.9, al., found in [dialect] Att. Inscrr.from iii B.C., IG22.1314.18, 1315.28, etc., and in Hellenistic and later Gr. (along with νεώς), SIG277 (Priene, iv B.C.), 214 (Phanagoria, iv B.C.), 494.3 (Delph., iii B.C.), LXX 1 Ki.1.9, al. (νεώς only inA 2 Ma.), UPZ6.22 (ii B.C.), Plb.9.30.2 (
νεώς Plb. 10.4.4
), etc.; [dialect] Ion.[full] νηός, always in Hom. and Hdt. (v. infr.), but gen. νε[ώ] IG12(7).1.4 (Amorgos, v B.C.); dat.νειῴ Michel832.38
(Samos, iv B.C.); [dialect] Att. [full] νεώς (Attic Inscrr. of v-iii B.C. (v. infr.), once in Trag. (v. supr.), freq. in Prose authors and found in Com. (v. infr.)); declension, nom.νεώς X.HG 1.6.1
; gen.νεώ IG12.4.9
,80.6, Ar.Pl.733, IG22.1524.45, SIG1219.32 (Gambreum, iii B.C.); dat.νεῴ IG12.6.122
, 256.4, Antipho6.39, Alex.40.3, IG22.1504.7; acc. νεών ib.12.24.13, al., X.HG6.5.9, Ar. Nu.401, Pl.741, Philem.139, f.l. in E.HF340, laterνεώ IG22.212.35
(iv B.C.), al., LXX 2 Ma.6.2, al., D.S.16.58 (v.l. νεών), SIG877A10 (ii/ iii A.D.), v.l. in D.H.4.26, butνεών Aristid.Or.27(16).19
(v.l. νεώ), Ach.Tat.3.6 (v.l. νεώ Bast Epist.Crit.p.176), etc.: pl. nom.νεῴ X. HG6.4.7
; acc.νεώς A.Pers.810
, Isoc.5.117, Plb.10.4.4; dat.νεῴς IG12.384
; on the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.8: [dialect] Aeol. [full] ναῦος Alc.9, IG12 (2).60.27 (Mytil.); Spartan [full] ναϝός ib.5(1).1564 (pl., found at Delos, v/iv B.C.):—temple, Il.1.39, al., Pi.O.13.21 (pl.), etc.II inmost part of a temple, shrine containing the image of the god, Hdt.1.183, 6.19, X.Ap.15, UPZl.c.;ἐν παντὶ ἱερῷ ὅπου ναός ἐστι PGnom.79
(ii A.D.).III portable shrine carried in processions, Hdt.2.63, D.S.1.15, etc.IV metaph., of Christians,ν. θεοῦ ἐστε 1 Ep.Cor. 3.16
; of the body of Christ, Ev.Jo.2.19,21. [νᾰόν andνᾰῶ Orph.Fr. 32b
iv (Phaestus, ii B.C.); elsewh. [pron. full] ᾱ.] (Perh. fr. νᾰς-ϝός, cf. ναίω.)------------------------------------νᾱός, [dialect] Dor. and [dialect] Att. poet. gen. from ναῦς. [full] Νᾶος,A v. Νάϊος.
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