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Latin
Adjective
nāvālia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of nāvālis
Noun
nāvālia n pl (genitive nāvālium); third declension
- a dock
c. 48 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Civili :
- Massilienses post superius incommodum veteres ad eudem numerum ex navalibus productas naves refecerant,
- The Marseillians, after the debacle, repared from their docks some old ships and brought their fleet to have off them as much as they once had,
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
References
- navalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “navalia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “navalia”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “navalia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “navalia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin