ναῦλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ναῦλλον (naûllon), ναῦλον (naûlon)

Etymology

From ναῦς (naûs, “ship”).

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nâu̯.los/ → /ˈna.βlos/ → /ˈna.vlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nâu̯.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.βlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vlos/

Noun

ναῦλος • (naûlos) m (genitive ναύλου); second declension

1. passage-money, fare, freight
2. tax paid for the use of state-provided boats
3. freight, cargo of ships
4. rent of a tenement

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ναῦλος; τοῦ ναύλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ναῦλος ho naûlos	τὼ ναύλω tṑ naúlō	οἱ ναῦλοι hoi naûloi
Genitive	τοῦ ναύλου toû naúlou	τοῖν ναύλοιν toîn naúloin	τῶν ναύλων tôn naúlōn
Dative	τῷ ναύλῳ tōî naúlōi	τοῖν ναύλοιν toîn naúloin	τοῖς ναύλοις toîs naúlois
Accusative	τὸν ναῦλον tòn naûlon	τὼ ναύλω tṑ naúlō	τοὺς ναύλους toùs naúlous
Vocative	ναῦλε naûle	ναύλω naúlō	ναῦλοι naûloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ναυλαῖον (naulaîon)
• ναυλοδόκος (naulodókos)
• ναυλόω (naulóō)
• ναυλώσιμος (naulṓsimos)
• ναυλωτικός (naulōtikós)

Descendants

• Greek: ναύλος (návlos)
• → Arabic: نَوْل (nawl), نَوْلُون (nawlūn)
• → Latin: naulum
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *naulium
    • Old Catalan: noli, nolit
      • Catalan: noli, nòlit
        • → Occitan: noli, nolit
          • → Middle French: nolit, noly, nolis, naulis
            • French: nolis
  • ⇒ Medieval Latin: naulāticum
    • → Old French: naulage
      • Middle French: naulage
        • French: naulage
          • → English: naulage
      • → Medieval Latin: naulagium
  • → Italian: naulo, nolo
  • → Portuguese: naulo
  • → Venetan: naulo, navolo, nolo

Further reading

• “ναῦλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ναῦλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ναῦλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN