Ναβαταῖοι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ναβαταῖοι, ἔθνος τῶν εὐδαιμόνων Ἀράβων, ἀπὸ Ναβάτου τινός. Ναβάτης δέ ἐστιν ἀραβιστὶ ὁ ἐκ μοιχείας γενόμενος. ἀπὸ οὖν τοῦ Ναβάτης Ναβαταῖος καὶ Ναβατηνή ἡ χώρα καὶ Ναβατηνός ὄνομα κύριον.

Nabataioi: a people of the Happy Arabs, named after a certain Nabatos. 'Nabates' in Arabic is the person born of adultery. From 'Nabates', then, comes 'Nabataios', and 'Nabatene' is the region, and 'Nabatenos' a personal name.

Text Details

Entry	#2
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 466.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	29
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ναβαταῖος	Nabataeans · people · corrected · Q6956769
Εὐδαίμονες	Eudaimones (ethnic group) · people
Ἄραβες	Arabs · people
Ναβάτης	Nabathes (personal name) · person
Ναβάτης	Nabathes (personal name) · person
Ναβατηνή	Nabatene (the land of the Nabataeans) · place
Ναβατηνός	Nabathenos (personal name) · person
Ναβαταῖοι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q6956769 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From a certain Nabatus.
Borrowing Non Greek	'Nabates' (Ναβάτης) in Arabic is one born of adultery.
Morphological Composition	Therefore from 'Ναβάτης' comes 'Ναβαταῖος' (the ethnonym).
Morphological Composition	And 'Ναβατηνή' is the country (name of the region).
Unclear Metalinguistic	And 'Ναβατηνός' is a proper personal name.

Links

Place links	Nabataean art \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1585.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κύριον τό gloss:80561c77c14cdb57	personal name (AI), literal meaning, proper name (as in τ' ὄνομα κύριον) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 3 scan rows · 3 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.73

char LCS 42 (27.3%) · word LCS 8 (27.6%)

Stephanos

Ναβαταῖοι, ἔθνος τῶν εὐδαιμόνων Ἀράβων, ἀπὸ Ναβάτου τινός. Ναβάτης δέ ἐστιν ἀραβιστὶ ὁ ἐκ μοιχείας γενόμενος. ἀπὸ οὖν τοῦ Ναβάτης Ναβαταῖος καὶ Ναβατηνή ἡ χώρα καὶ Ναβατηνός ὄνομα κύριον.

Herodian

καὶ Χαριμάται, κάτω δ´ Ἡνίοχοι, ἄνω δὲ Κοραξοί«. Ναβάτης ἀφ´ οὗ ἔθνος τῶν εὐδαιμόνων Ἀράβων. Ναβάτης δέ ἐστιν ἀραβιστὶ ὁ ἐκ μοιχείας γενόμενος. οἰκέτης, ὀφελέτης, φυλέτης, εὐνέτης, ἐρέτης, γενέτης, γαμέτης, Μακέτης ὁ Μακεδών, Ματυκέτης ἔθνος Σκυθικόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Μασσαγέτης ἔθνος Σκυθῶν, ἔνθα Κῦρος ἐτελεύτησε. Εὐεργέτης Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος. Στράβων ὃ καὶ Ἀριμα…

Herodian 1.131

char LCS 39 (25.3%) · word LCS 7 (24.1%)

Stephanos

Ναβαταῖοι, ἔθνος τῶν εὐδαιμόνων Ἀράβων, ἀπὸ Ναβάτου τινός. Ναβάτης δέ ἐστιν ἀραβιστὶ ὁ ἐκ μοιχείας γενόμενος. ἀπὸ οὖν τοῦ Ναβάτης Ναβαταῖος καὶ Ναβατηνή ἡ χώρα καὶ Ναβατηνός ὄνομα κύριον.

Herodian

… «καθάπερ οἱ τὸν Δία Δωδωναῖον μὲν καλοῦντες ὅτι δίδωσι ἡμῖν τὰ ἀγαθά, Πελασγικὸν δὲ ὅτι τῆς γῆς πέλας ἐστίν». Κλεωναῖος «Κλεωναίοιο χάρωνος». βωμιαῖος. Σοφοκλῆς Αἰχμαλωτίσι «καὶ βωμιαῖον ἐσχάρας λαβὼν λίθον». Ναβαταῖος ἔθνος τῶν εὐδαιμόνων Ἀράβων ἀπὸ Ναβάτου τινός. Παραυαῖοι ἔθνος Θεσπρωτικόν. Ῥιανὸς ἐν τετάρτῳ Θεσσαλικῶν «σὺν δὲ Παραυαίους καὶ ἀμύμονας Ὀμφαλιῆας». καλοῦνται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ παρὰ τὸν Αὖον ποταμὸν οἰκεῖσθαι. Τιλαταῖος ἔθνος Θρᾴκης. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ (c. 96). Τραγασαῖος…