The corpus record

ναυπηγ-έω

naupegeo

to be a shipbuilder, build ships

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Where it lives

Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Alcibiades 1 2 · 1.95/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Hellenica 5 · 0.76/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

to be a shipbuilder, build ships, build oneself, get, built, to be built

to be a shipbuilder, build ships, Ar. Pl. 513, Pl. Alc. 1.107c:—more freq. in Med., πλοῖα, νέας ναυπηγέεσθαι, build oneself ships, get them built, Hdt. 2.96, 6.46, cf. Pl. l.c.; ἐπί τινι against others, Hdt. 1.27; ἐναυπηγοῦντο νεῶν στόλον Th. 1.31; τριήρεις ἐναυπηγησάμεθα And. 3.5, cf. Th. 6.90, D. 17.28: pf. νεναυπήγημαι in med. sense, D.S. 20.16:—Pass., of ships, to be built, Th. 1.13 (v.l. ἐνναυπηγηθῆναι); ὁπόσα ἂν οἰκοδομηθῇ ἢ ναυπηγηθῇ X. Vect. 4.35, cf. HG 1.3.17, Plu. Fort.Rom. 2.321d.

II contrive, ‘engineer’

metaph. in Med., contrive, ‘engineer’, τὰ πάντα νεναυπηγημένη ἐπὶ ταῖς Ῥωμαίων τύχαις J. AJ 19.2.4.

In the wild

ἐναυπηγήσατο · enaupēgēsato Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..22 (DIORISIS sentence 289)
ναυπηγουμένου · naupēgoumenou Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..22 (DIORISIS sentence 289)
ναυπηγεῖσθαι · naupēgeisthai Aristotle, Economics 1349a (DIORISIS sentence 217)
νεναυπηγημένον · nenaupēgēmenon Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8
ναυπηγεῖσθαι · naupēgeisthai Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 97)
ναυπηγέεσθαι · naupēgeesthai Herodotus, Histories 1.27.4 (DIORISIS sentence 172)

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