naumachia

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin naumachia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ναυμαχία (naumakhía). Compare naumachy.

Pronunciation

Noun

naumachia (plural naumachias or naumachiae)

  1. (historical, nautical, in Ancient Rome) The recreation of a sea battle staged for entertainment.
    • 1816, John Keats, Sonnet - Before he went to feed with owls and bats, Wordsworth Editions, published 1994, page 270:
      BEFORE he went to feed with owls and bats

      Nebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream,

      Worse than an Hus'if's when she thinks her cream

      Made a Naumachia for mice and rats.
  2. (historical) The location where such recreated sea battles took place; a building featuring an artificial body of water.
    • 1962, WH Auden, Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 286:
      Our clerical guide did not fail us, but took us to see some ancient architectural remains, water tanks, a naumachia and other ruins of a similar sort.

Translations

Italian

Noun

naumachia f (plural naumachie)

  1. naumachia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυμαχία (naumakhía).

Noun

naumachia f (genitive naumachiae); first declension

  1. naumachia
  2. an artificial lake for such a battle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative naumachia naumachiae
Genitive naumachiae naumachiārum
Dative naumachiae naumachiīs
Accusative naumachiam naumachiās
Ablative naumachiā naumachiīs
Vocative naumachia naumachiae

References

  • “naumachia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • naumachia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “naumachia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “naumachia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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