ναύκληρος
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- shipowner and merchant
- skipper, sailing-master
- (in general) captain, commander
- (at Athens) one who rented and sublet tenement houses
Etymology
Compound from Ancient Greek ναῦς (ship, boat, a boat) + Ancient Greek κλῆρος (a lot, clergy, lot, a casting lots, piece of wood for casting lots, what is alloted, drawing lots).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κλῆρος
Gloss
a lot, clergy, lot, a casting lots, piece of wood for casting lots, what is alloted, drawing lots
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- kleros English
- nauscopy English
- clerus Latin
- clērus Latin
- nauclerus Latin
- Naos Italian
- клирос Russian
- Ναυσίθοος Ancient Greek
- Ναυσικάα Ancient Greek
- Ναυσιφάνης Ancient Greek
- Ναύβολος Ancient Greek
- Ναύκρατις Ancient Greek
- Ναύπακτος Ancient Greek
- Ναύπλιος Ancient Greek
- κληρικός Ancient Greek
- κλῆρος Ancient Greek
- ναυμαχέω Ancient Greek
- ναυμαχία Ancient Greek
- ναυπηγός Ancient Greek
- ναυσικλειτός Ancient Greek
- ναύαρχος Ancient Greek
- ναύσταθμον Ancient Greek
- ναύτης Ancient Greek
- ναῦς Ancient Greek
- περίνεως Ancient Greek
- ἐχενηΐς Ancient Greek
- ὁλόκληρος Ancient Greek
- *kleh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *néh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- ناخوذاة Arabic
- نَاخُوذَاة Arabic
- خدا Persian
- ناخدا Persian
- ناو Persian
- ολόκληρος Greek (modern)
- nakhoda Malay
- ناخدا Urdu
- نوخذة Gulf Arabic