keeper, warden of a temple
keeper, warden of a temple, E. IT 1284, Arist. Pol. 1322b25, BGU 362 (iii A.D.); cf. ναυφύλαξ II.
II master, pilot of a ship
(ναῦς) master or pilot of a ship, S. Fr. 143.
The corpus record
νᾱοφύλαξ
naophulax · ὁ
keeper, warden of a temple
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ναοφύλακας · naophylakas Aristotle, Politics 1322b (DIORISIS sentence 2463)
- ναοφύλακες · naophylakes Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 778)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.