ναυσία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ναῦς (naûs, “ship”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Noun

ναυσία • (nausía) f (genitive ναυσίας); first declension

1. nausea, seasickness

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ναυσίᾱ; τῆς ναυσίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ναυσίᾱ hē nausíā	τὼ ναυσίᾱ tṑ nausíā	αἱ ναυσίαι hai nausíai
Genitive	τῆς ναυσίᾱς tês nausíās	τοῖν ναυσίαιν toîn nausíain	τῶν ναυσιῶν tôn nausiôn
Dative	τῇ ναυσίᾳ têi nausíāi	τοῖν ναυσίαιν toîn nausíain	ταῖς ναυσίαις taîs nausíais
Accusative	τὴν ναυσίᾱν tḕn nausíān	τὼ ναυσίᾱ tṑ nausíā	τᾱ̀ς ναυσίᾱς tā̀s nausíās
Vocative	ναυσίᾱ nausíā	ναυσίᾱ nausíā	ναυσίαι nausíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: nausea
  • → English: nausea
  • → French: nausée, noise
  • → Italian: nausea
  • → Portuguese: náusea
  • → Spanish: náusea
  • → Catalan: nàusea

References

• “ναυσία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ναυσία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ναυσία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften