The corpus record

ναυτίλος

nautilos · ὁ

seaman, sailor

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
Orestes 3 · 3.06/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

seaman, sailor

seaman, sailor, Hdt. 2.43, A. Pr. 468, S. Aj. 1146: rare in Com., Nausicr. 1.2, 2.10.

2 of a ship

as Adj. ναύτῐλος, ον, of a ship, ν. σέλματα A. Ag. 1442; ν. πλάτη E. Fr. 846.

II paper nautilus, Argonauta argo

the paper nautilus, Argonauta argo, a cephalopod mollusc fabled to sail by spreading its membranous arms, Arist. HA 525a21, 622b5, cf. Call. Epigr. 6.3, Opp. H. 1.340, Ael. NA 9.34.

In the wild

ναυτίλων · nautilōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1233–1235
ναυτίλων · nautilōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1440–1442
ναυτίλων · nautilōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 630–631
ναυτίλοις · nautilois Aeschylus, Agamemnon 895–901
ναυτίλων · nautilōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 201–202
ναυτίλων · nautilōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 467–468

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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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