The corpus record — Latin

Naias

Naias · f

a water-nymph, Naiad

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

Nāĭăs — Lewis & Short

Nāĭăs, ădis, and more freq. Nāĭs, ĭdis and ĭdos (f., = *nai+a/s and *nai(s (floating, swimming, that is in the water),

plur. ĭdas),

I a water-nymph, Naiad: illum fontana petebant Numina, Naïades, Ov. M. 14, 328: Aegle Naïadum pulcherrima, Verg. E. 6, 21: Naïs Amalthēa, Ov. F. 5, 115.—Poet. of mixing wine with water: Naïda Bacchus amat, Tib. 3, 6, 57.—Adj.: puellae Naïdes, Verg. E. 10, 10.—

II Transf., in gen., a nymph (Hamadryad, Nereid): Naïda vulneribus succidit in arbore factis, Ov. F. 4, 231: inter Hamadryadas celeberrima Naias, id. M. 1, 691: Naïdes aequoreae, id. ib. 14, 557.—

III The surname probably of a freedwoman: Servilia Naïs, Suet. Ner. 3.— Hence, Nāĭcus, a, um, adj., of the Naids, proceeding from the Naids: dona, Prop. 2, 32, 40.—

B As subst.: Nāĭcus, i, m., a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 241, col. 2.— In fem.: † Nāĭcē, Inscr. Fabr. p. 650, n. 433.

In the wild

Naiadum Silius Italicus, Punica 6.289
Naiadum Vergil, Eclogues 6
Naiadum Horace, Carmina 3.25
Naiadum Silius Italicus, Punica 15.772
Naiadum Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.329
Naiadum Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.153

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.