The corpus record

ναυαρχ-έω

nauarcheo

command a fleet

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Where it lives

Hellenica 3 · 0.46/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

command a fleet

command a fleet, Hdt. 7.161, X. An. 5.1.4, IG 12(8).183 (Samothrace), Phld. Rh. 2.209 S.: c. gen., ν. [πλοίων] Philipp. ap. D. 18.77.

II preside at the festival of the ship

in the cult of Isis, preside at the festival of the ship (πλοιαφέσια), Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 1.152, al. (Eretria).

In the wild

ναυαρχέειν · nauarcheein Herodotus, Histories 7.161.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8002)
ναυαρχοῦντα · nauarchounta Xenophon, Anabasis 7.2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3175)
ναυαρχεῖν · nauarchein Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 392)
ναυαρχοῦντα · nauarchounta Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.28 (DIORISIS sentence 729)
ναυαρχοῦντος · nauarchountos Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.9 (DIORISIS sentence 813)

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.

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