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ναυτ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for a ship, seafaring, naval, “ὁ ν. στρατός” Hdt.7.100,203, etc.; opp. ὁ πεζός, Id.8.1; “ν. λεώς” A.Pers.383; “στόλος” S.Ph.561; ν. ἐρείπια wrecks of ships, A.Ag.660; “ἑδώλια” S.Aj.1277; σκάφη ib.1278; “ν. πόλεμος” And.4.12; “ν. ἀστρολογία” Arist.AP0.79a1; ἔγγαια καὶ ναυτικά property on land and sea, PEleph.1.13 (iv B.C.); “ν. ἀναρχία” among the seamen, E.Hec.607; “τὸ ν.” crew, Hp.Ep.14; but usu. navy, fleet, Hdt.7.97, 160, Ar.Eq.1063, Th.1.36, etc.; “ἡ -κή” Hdt.7.161.
2. of persons, skilled in seamanship, nautical, ναυτικοὶ ἐγένοντο became a naval power, Th.1.18, cf.7.21; ναυτικός, ὁ, = ναύτης, POxy.929.8 (ii/iii A.D.).
3. ἡ-κή (sc. τέχνη) navigation, seamanship, Hdt.8.1, etc.; “τὰ -κά” Pl.Alc.1.124e: τὰ -κά, also, naval affairs, sea-power, Th.4.75, X.HG1.6.4.
II. ναυτικόν , τό, perh. pilot's fee, POxy.522.15 (ii A.D.); but usu.
b. money borrowed or lent on bottomry, in full, “ν. χρήματα” Lys.32.7: mostly in pl., ν. ἐκδεδομένα ib.6; ναυτικὸν ἀνελέσθαι to take it up, borrow it, D.50.17; “ναυτικοῖς ἐργάζεσθαι” Id.33.4: in sg., X.Vect.3.9; also “ν. τόκος” D.L.6.99. Adv. “-κῶς, δανείζειν” Id.7.13.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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