naos
Meanings
noun
- The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
noun
- plural of nao
name
- Zeta Puppis, a star in the constellation of Puppis.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ναός (naós, “inner part of the temple”).
Related words
Derived words
Previous
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.