νεώκορ-ος, ὁ,
Doric dialect νᾱοκόρος [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]:
contraction νᾱκόρος [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]: as
feminine, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+];
ναυκόρος, ἡ, Buresch
Aus Lydien p.58:
poetry νηοκόρος [
Refs 1st c.AD+]:—
warden of a temple, as a sacred officer, τοῖς ἱεροῖς ν. γίγνεσθαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱερέας τε καὶ ν.[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; βωμοῖο ν. [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
2)
sacristan, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐνβόλιον ἔχων ν. in a list of silver articles, [
Refs]
II) title assumed by Asiatic cities in Imperial times, when they had built a temple in honour of their patron-god or the Emperor, as Ephesus, ν. Ἀρτέμιδος [
NT]; also as
adjective, τῷ ν. Ἐφεσίων δήμῳ [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of Smyrna, [
Refs]
sweep, the originally sense being probably
temple-sweeper,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]