ναυτίλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ναύτης (naútēs, “seaman”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nau̯.tí.los/ → /naɸˈti.los/ → /nafˈti.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nau̯.tí.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /naʍˈti.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /naɸˈti.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /nafˈti.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /nafˈti.los/

Noun

ναυτῐ́λος • (nautílos) m (genitive ναυτῐ́λου); second declension

1. (poetic) seaman, sailor

   Synonym: ναύτης (naútēs)

2. paper nautilus (Argonauta argo)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ναυτῐ́λος; τοῦ ναυτῐ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ναυτῐ́λος ho nautílos	τὼ ναυτῐ́λω tṑ nautílō	οἱ ναυτῐ́λοι hoi nautíloi
Genitive	τοῦ ναυτῐ́λου toû nautílou	τοῖν ναυτῐ́λοιν toîn nautíloin	τῶν ναυτῐ́λων tôn nautílōn
Dative	τῷ ναυτῐ́λῳ tôi nautílōi	τοῖν ναυτῐ́λοιν toîn nautíloin	τοῖς ναυτῐ́λοις toîs nautílois
Accusative	τὸν ναυτῐ́λον tòn nautílon	τὼ ναυτῐ́λω tṑ nautílō	τοὺς ναυτῐ́λους toùs nautílous
Vocative	ναυτῐ́λε nautíle	ναυτῐ́λω nautílō	ναυτῐ́λοι nautíloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ναυτιλέω (nautiléō)
• ναυτιλία (nautilía)
• ναυτίλλομαι (nautíllomai)
• ναυτιλοφθόρος (nautilophthóros)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: nautilus
  • Catalan: nàutil
  • English: nautilus
  • French: nautile
  • Italian: nautilo
  • Portuguese: náutilo
  • Romanian: nautil
  • Spanish: nautilo
  • Translingual: Nautilus

Further reading

• “ναυτίλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ναυτίλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ναυτίλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette