A). ship, Hom., etc. (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in NT, Act.Ap. 27.41 , πλοῖον being generally used); ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at the ships, i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, Il. 2.688 , 11.659 ; νῆες μακραί ships of war, built long and taper for speed, Th. 1.41 , etc.; opp. νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-ships, Hdt. 1.163 , etc.; νέες alone, = τριήρεις , opp. πεντηκόντεροι, Id. 8.1 ; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, D. 3.5 ; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, A. Pers. 380 .— Att. declens. ναῦς, νεώς, νηϊ, ναῦν, dual gen. and dat. νεο=ιν, pl. νῆες, νεῶν (νηῶν is v. l. in Lys. 13.15 ), ναυσί, ναῦς; in later writers, nom. pl. ναῦς, acc. pl. νῆας, D.S. 13.13 , Plb. 5.2.4 , etc., cf. Phryn. 147 :— Ep. νηῦς, νηός, νηΐ, νῆα, pl. νῆες, νηῶν, νηυσί or νήεσσι, νῆας (but also gen. and acc. sg. νεός, νέα [the latter as monosyll. in Od. 9.283 ], pl. νέες, νεῶν, νέεσσι, νέας); Ep. gen. and dat. pl. ναῦφι, -φιν, Il. 2.794 , 16.281 , Od. 14.498 ; in late Ep., nom. νῆυς dub. l. in Mosch. 2.104 , cf. EM 440.17 ; acc. sg. and pl. νηῦν, νηῦς, A.R. 1.1358 , Herod. 2.3 , Dem. Bith. 4.6 : Hdn.Gr. 1.401 , 2.675 , 553 also gives νεῦς, νεΐ (v.l. in Hdt. 7.184 ), and νευσί ( Hp. Ep. 27 , Sammelb. 5829 ):— Ion. νηῦς, νεός, νηΐ, νέα, pl. νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν Epigr. in IG 12(8).683 (Thasos, vi/v B. C.)), νέας (but νηός Archil. (?) in PLit.Lond. 54 ; νηός is freq. in codd. of Hdt., νηῶν 7.160 ):— Dor. ναῦς (νᾶς Hdn.Gr. 1.400 ), νᾱός Pi. P. 4.185 , al., νᾱΐ Id. O. 13.54 , al.(νᾷ perh. to be read in Alcm. 23 iii 27 ), ναῦν Pi. P. 4.245 , Fr. 234 (νᾶν Hdn.Gr. 1.328 , νᾶα B. 16.89 ); pl. νᾶες Pi. O. 12.4 ,al., ναῶν Id. P. 1.74 , ναυσί, ναυσίν, Id. N. 7.29 , P. 3.68 (νάεσσι ib. 4.56 ), νᾶας f.l. in Theoc. 22.17 :— Aeol. sg. gen. νᾶος, dat. νᾶϊ, pl. dat. νάεσσι, Alc. 19 , 18 , 79 , gen. νᾱ/ων Id. Supp. 12.9 , Sapph. Supp. 5.2 :—Trag. commonly use Dor. forms in lyr., Att. in dialogue (but sts. ναός, ναῶν, A. Th. 62 , Pers. 340 , etc.); the Ep. forms νηός S. Fr. 761 , νηῶν E. IT 1485 , νῆας A. Supp. 744 (lyr.), νηυσίν Id. Pers. 370 (cod. M) are prob. corrupt. (Cf. Skt. naús, Lat. nāvis, etc.)