Editing Nafpaktos (section)

==Name==
The ancient name ''Naupaktos'' (Ναύπακτος) means "boatyard" (from [[:wikt:ναύς|ναύς]]  ''naus''   "ship"  and [[:wikt:πήγνυμι|πήγ-]]  ''pêg-'' "to fix, fasten"). It was later [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] as ''Naupactus''. By the late medieval period, the local name had evolved into ''Nepahtos'' (Νέπαχτος), ''Epaktos'' or ''Epahtos'' (Έπακτος, Έπαχτος). By the [[Mediterranean Lingua Franca|"Franks" (Latins)]] it was called ''Neopant'', ''Nepant'' or ''Lepant''. French sources of the 14th century give ''Nepant'' or ''Neopant''; Venetian sources have ''Nepanto'' or ''Lepanto''.<ref>Studi bizantini, Volume 2, Istituto romane editoriale, 1927, p. 307. Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, La obra Forma de la tierra (1956), p 48.</ref>

The name was adapted in [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] from Greek Νέπαχτος as ''Aynabahti'' or ''İnebahtı''.<ref>Molto importanti le forme turche, le quali si confermano magnificamente il Νέπαχτος greco." Abraham bar Hiyya Savasorda, La obra Forma de la tierra (1956), p 48</ref>

The original ancient name was revived in [[modern Greece]] in the 19th century.