Naxos

From Ancient Greek Νάξος (Náxos).

Naxos

1. An island in the central Cyclades.
2. A town in Greece located on a homonymous island.

• Naxiot
• Naxos disease
• Naxos syndrome

• Axson, Saxon, axons

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νάξος (Náxos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnak.sɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnak.sos]

Naxos f sg (genitive Naxī); second declension

1. The largest island of the Cyclades

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• Naxius
• naxium

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

Borrowed from Latin Naxos, from Ancient Greek Νάξος (Náxos).

• Hyphenation: Na‧xos

Naxos ?

1. Naxos (an island and town in the South Aegean region, Greece)