ναύκληρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ναῦς (naûs, “ship”) +‎ κλῆρος (klêros, “lot; clergy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nǎu̯.klɛː.ros/ → /ˈnaɸ.kli.ros/ → /ˈnaf.kli.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nǎu̯.klɛː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaʍ.kle̝.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɸ.kli.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnaf.kli.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈnaf.kli.ros/

Noun

ναύκληρος • (naúklēros) m (genitive ναυκλήρου); second declension

1. shipowner and merchant
2. skipper, sailing-master
3. (in general) captain, commander
4. (at Athens) one who rented and sublet tenement houses

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ναύκληρος; τοῦ ναυκλήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ναύκληρος ho naúklēros	τὼ ναυκλήρω tṑ nauklḗrō	οἱ ναύκληροι hoi naúklēroi
Genitive	τοῦ ναυκλήρου toû nauklḗrou	τοῖν ναυκλήροιν toîn nauklḗroin	τῶν ναυκλήρων tôn nauklḗrōn
Dative	τῷ ναυκλήρῳ tôi nauklḗrōi	τοῖν ναυκλήροιν toîn nauklḗroin	τοῖς ναυκλήροις toîs nauklḗrois
Accusative	τὸν ναύκληρον tòn naúklēron	τὼ ναυκλήρω tṑ nauklḗrō	τοὺς ναυκλήρους toùs nauklḗrous
Vocative	ναύκληρε naúklēre	ναυκλήρω nauklḗrō	ναύκληροι naúklēroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ναυκληρέω (nauklēréō)
• ναυκλήρημᾰ (nauklḗrēma)
• ναυκληρῐ́ᾱ (nauklēríā)
• ναυκληρῐκός (nauklērikós)
• ναυκλήρῐον (nauklḗrion)
• ναυκληροκῠβερνήτης (nauklērokubernḗtēs)
• ναυκληρομᾰ́χῐμος (nauklēromákhimos)
• ναυκληρώσῐμος (nauklērṓsimos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: nauclērus
  • Italian: nocchiero
    • → Catalan: nauxer
  • → Spanish: nauclero

Further reading

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