Alternative forms

• νεώς (neṓs) — Attic
• νηός (nēós) — Ionic
• ναῦος (naûos) — Aeolic
• νᾱϝός (nāwós) — Laconian

Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΝΑΟΣ *nahwós, perhaps from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΝΑΟΣ *nes- (“to join with, to conceal oneself”) and related to ναίω (naíō, “to dwell”), νέομαι (néomai, “to go or come back”). Alternatively, it has been proposed that the word is related to ναῦς (naûs, “boat, ship”), due to the origin of Greek temples in upturned rowing ships stored on supports.^[1] However, the existence of rare variants ναιός (naiós) and νειός (neiós) suggest a possible Pre-GreekCategory:Ancient Greek terms borrowed from a Pre-Greek substrate#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate#ΝΑΟΣ origin.^[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

νᾱός • (nāós) m (genitive νᾱοῦ)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek second-declension nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΝΑΟΣ; second declension (DoricCategory:Doric Greek#ΝΑΟΣ, Tragic, KoineCategory:Koine Greek#ΝΑΟΣ)

1. a temple
2. innermost part of a temple, sanctuary, the part of the temple considered most pure and holy
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 3:16:

     οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ναὸς θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;

     ouk oídate hóti naòs theoû este kaì tò pneûma toû theoû oikeî en humîn?

     • 1887 translation by Edwin Palmer

       Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

     Category:Ancient Greek terms with quotations#ΝΑΟΣ

References

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 766
• “ναός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ναός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ναός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3485 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chapel idem, page 124.
  • sanctuary idem, page 733.
  • shrine idem, page 771.
  • temple idem, page 860.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Etymology

From Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΝΑΟΣ ναός (naós, “temple”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈos/Category:Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΝΑΟΣ

Noun

ναός • (naós) m (plural ναοί)Category:Greek lemmas#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Greek nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Greek masculine nouns#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΝΑΟΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΝΑΟΣ

1. (religionCategory:el:Religion#ΝΑΟΣ) place of worship: church, temple, mosque, synagogue