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Headword: *nao/s
Adler number: nu,29
Translated headword: temple
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*nao/s.
Notes:
Wentzel compared Photius' entry for this headword (now nu23 Theodoridis), which has the gloss a)po\ tou= na/ein "from [the verb] na/ein ["to dwell"]."
*nao/s is a Doric, Thessalian, and Hellenistic Greek form: Ionic nho/s, Attic new/s, Lesbian nau=os, Spartan navo/s. Cf. nu 236.
In Byzantine Greek the word can refer to a Christian church building.
Keywords: architecture; Christianity; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 January 2003@21:34:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (deleted keyword) on 21 January 2003@02:53:10.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 6 September 2008@00:54:59.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 3 June 2013@05:07:02.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 16 June 2013@23:22:18.
Catharine Roth (rearranged notes) on 13 October 2020@01:47:56.

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