ναός

naos

temple

Appears 13 times across Aristotle's works.

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De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 3
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Chapter 103 839a26–33

839a30
Chapter 105 839b9–840a5

839b33
Chapter 106 840a6–14

840a10
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book X 2
Chapter 4 1174a13–1175a20

1174a24
1174a25
Oeconomica 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1347b11
1353a21
On the Heavens 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 9 290b12–291a28

291a15
History of Animals 1
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Book VI 1
Chapter 24 577b19–578a5

577b30
Mechanica 1
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Chapter 5 850b10–27

850b20
Meteorology 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 1 370b3–371b17

371a31
Poetics 1
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Chapter 23 1459a17–1459b6

1459a36
Politics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 13 1283a23–1284b34

1284b11

Dictionary (LSJ)

ναός, ὁ, Dor., Thess., etc. form, Leg.Gort. 1.42, IG 9(2).517.45 (Larissa, iii B.C.), etc., used also in Trag. (even dialogue) to the exclusion of νεώς, S. El. 8, E. Hipp. 31, al., exc. A. Pers. 810, rare in Att. Prose and Com., Pl. R. 394a, Lg. 738c, 814b, Arist. EN 1174a24, Posidipp. 29.1, more freq. in X., HG 2.3.20, An. 5.3.9, al., found in Att. Inscrr.from iii B.C., IG 22.1314.18, 1315.28, etc., and in Hellenistic and later Gr. (along with νεώς), SIG 277 (Priene, iv B.C.), 214 (Phanagoria, iv B.C.), 494.3 (Delph., iii B.C.), LXX 1 Ki. 1.9, al. (νεώς only in 2 Ma.), UPZ 6.22 (ii B.C.), Plb. 9.30.2 (νεώς Plb. 10.4.4), etc.; Ion.νηός, always in Hom. and Hdt. (v. infr.), but gen. νε[ώ] IG 12(7).1.4 (Amorgos, v B.C.); dat. νειῴ Michel 832.38 (Samos, iv B.C.); Att. νεώς (Attic Inscrr. of v-iii B.C. (v. infr.), once in Trag. (v. supr.), freq. in Prose authors and found in Com. (v. infr.)); declension, nom. νεώς X. HG 1.6.1; gen. νεώ IG 12.4.9,80.6, Ar. Pl. 733, IG 22.1524.45, SIG 1219.32 (Gambreum, iii B.C.); dat. νεῴ IG 12.6.122, 256.4, Antipho 6.39, Alex. 40.3, IG 22.1504.7; acc. νεών ib.12.24.13, al., X. HG 6.5.9, Ar. Nu. 401, Pl. 741, Philem. 139, f.l. in E. HF 340, later νεώ IG 22.212.35 (iv B.C.), al., LXX 2 Ma. 6.2, al., D.S. 16.58 (v.l. νεών), SIG 877A 10 (ii/ iii A.D.), v.l. in D.H. 4.26, but νεών Aristid. Or. 27(16).19 (v.l. νεώ), Ach.Tat. 3.6 (v.l. νεώ Bast Epist.Crit.p.176), etc.: pl. nom. νεῴ X. HG 6.4.7; acc. νεώς A. Pers. 810, Isoc. 5.117, Plb. 10.4.4; dat. νεῴς IG 12.384; on the accent v. Hdn.Gr.1.8: Aeol. ναῦος Alc. 9, IG 12 (2).60.27 (Mytil.); Spartan ναϝός ib.5(1).1564 (pl., found at Delos, v/iv B.C.):—A. temple, Il. 1.39, al., Pi. O. 13.21 (pl.), etc. II. inmost part of a temple, shrine containing the image of the god, Hdt. 1.183, 6.19, X. Ap. 15, UPZl.c.; ἐν παντὶ ἱερῷ ὅπου ναός ἐστι PGnom. 79 (ii A.D.). III. portable shrine carried in processions, Hdt. 2.63, D.S. 1.15, etc. IV. metaph., of Christians, ν. θεοῦ ἐστε 1 Ep.Cor. 3.16; of the body of Christ, Ev.Jo. 2.19,21. [νᾰόν and νᾰῶ Orph. Fr. 32biv (Phaestus, ii B.C.); elsewh. ᾱ.] (Perh. fr. νᾰσ-ϝός, cf. ναίω.)

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