ναυτικήν (nautiken)

ναυτικήν is an Ancient Greek form of ναυτικός, meaning “of ships, naval; (noun) fleet”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.10.5: … πορίας ἀντιπάλους ἡγοῦμαι τῷ ἡμετέρῳ πλήθει, καὶ ἅμα ἀξιῶ ὑμᾶς, Ἀθηναίους ὄντας καὶ ἐπισταμένους ἐμπειρίᾳ τὴν ναυτικὴν ἐπ’ ἄλλους ἀπόβασιν ὅτι, εἴ τις ὑπομένοι καὶ μὴ φόβῳ ῥοθίου καὶ νεῶν δεινότητος κατάπλου ὑποχωροίη, οὐκ ἄν πο …

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.2.3: … χωρήσαντας τοῖς Πέρσαις σώζεσθαι· ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ Ἡγελόχῳ, ὅτῳ προσετέτακτο ὑπʼ Ἀλεξάνδρου αὖθις ξυναγαγεῖν δύναμιν ναυτικήν, τοσαύτη ξυνηγμένη ἦν ὡς διʼ ὀλίγου προσδοκᾶν ἔσεσθαι ἄν σφισι παρʼ αὐτοῦ τινα ὠφέλειαν. οὕτω μὲν δὴ οἱ ἀμφὶ …

All forms of ναυτικός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.