Naupactus

English

Alternative forms

• Naupactos, Naupaktos, Naupaktus, Nafpactos, Nafpaktos, Návpaktos

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Nau‧pac‧tus

Proper noun

Naupactus

1. A town in Greece located in the southeastern part of the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture.

Synonyms

• Lepanto

Translations

Greek town

• Greek: Ναύπακτος (el) (Náfpaktos)
• Italian: Lepanto
• Latin: Naupactus
• Ottoman Turkish: اینبختی (İnebahtı)
• Portuguese: Lepanto f, Naupactus f
• Turkish: İnebahtı

Latin

Alternative forms

• Naupactos
• Naupactum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναύπακτος (Naúpaktos).

Proper noun

Naupactus m sg (genitive Naupactī); second declension

1. A town in Aetolia, also called Lepanto

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Naupactus
genitive	Naupactī
dative	Naupactō
accusative	Naupactum
ablative	Naupactō
vocative	Naupacte
locative	Naupactī

Related terms

• Naupactōus

References

• “Naupactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Naupactus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Naupactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Naupacto
• Naupactos (rare)
• Naupaktos (rare)

Proper noun

Naupactus f

1. Naupactus, Lepanto (a town in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece)

   Synonym: Lepanto