Nāĭăs | Nāĭs, ĭdis and ĭdos | Nāĭcus, a, um | Nāĭcus, i | ‡ Nāĭcē (noun F.m) : and more freq. , (plur. ĭdas), , = Ναϊάς and Ναἱς (floating, swimming, that is in the water)
* A water-nymph, Naiad: illum fontana petebant Numina, Naïades,Ov. M. 14, 328: Aegle Naïadum pulcherrima,Verg. E. 6, 21: Naïs Amalthēa,Ov. F. 5, 115.—Poet. of mixing wine with water: Naïda Bacchus amat,Tib. 3, 6, 57.—Adj.: puellae Naïdes,Verg. E. 10, 10.
* Transf., in gen., a nymph (Hamadryad, Nereid): Naïda vulneribus succidit in arbore factis,Ov. F. 4, 231: inter Hamadryadas celeberrima Naias,id. M. 1, 691: Naïdes aequoreae,id. ib. 14, 557.
* The surname probably of a freedwoman: Servilia Naïs,Suet. Ner. 3.— Hence, , , adj., of the Naids, proceeding from the Naids: dona,Prop. 2, 32, 40.
* As subst.: , , , a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 241, col. 2.— In fem.: , Inscr. Fabr. p. 650, n. 433.