indicate the level to which a name has been verified.Gender Masculine
Scripts Ναύπλιος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced Pron. /nǎu̯.pli.os/(Attic Greek) /ˈnaɸ.pli.os/(Koine Greek) /ˈnɔː.pli.əs/(English) [key·simplify]
Other Forms FormsNauplios
Meaning & History
Means "seafarer", from Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs) meaning "ship" and πλέω (pleo) meaning "to sail". It also refers to a kind of shellfish. In Greek mythology, this was the name of a son of Poseidon and the Daenid Amymone, the eponymous founder of Nauplia and the inventor of seafaring. It was also the name of his own son (who in some accounts is the same person), who fathered Palamedes, Oiax, and Nausimedon, and of an Argonaut who may have either been a descendant of the original Nauplius or also the same person.