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νῆα (nea)

νῆα is an Ancient Greek form of ναῦς, meaning “ship”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 206 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.18: νῆα μὲν οὖν οἱ πρόσθεν ἐπικλείουσιν ἀοιδοὶ

Procopius, De Bellis 8.22.28: ἃ δὴ γράμματα ἐν πλοίῳ τούτῳ ἢ τηνικάδε ἢ ὕστερον ξυσθέντα δηλοῖ ἐν ἑξαμέτρῳ. ὧν τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα ἐξίτηλα χρόνῳ τῷ μακρῷ γέγονε, τὰ δὲ πρῶτα καὶ ἐς τόδε διαφαίνεται λέγοντα ὧδε· Νῆά με λαϊνέην ἱδρύσατο τῇδ’ Ἀγαμέμνων, Ἑλλήνων στρατιῆς σῆμα πλοϊζομένης.

All forms of ναῦς (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.