Ναϊσσός - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Ναϊσσός, πόλις Θρᾴκης, κτίσμα καὶ πατρὶς Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ βασιλέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ναϊσσιτανός. καὶ ἔοικεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ναϊσσός Ναϊσσίτης καὶ κατὰ παραγωγὴν ἐπιχωρίως Ναϊσσιτανός.

Naissos: a city in Thrace, foundation and fatherland of Constantine the emperor. The ethnonym is 'Naissitanos'. And 'Naissites' seems to be from 'Naissos', and by derivation in the local form 'Naissitanos'.

Text Details

Entry	#4
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 467.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	23
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ναϊσσός	Naissos (Naissus; modern Niš) · place · corrected · Q3869982
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Κωνσταντίνος	Constantine · person
Ναϊσσιτανός	Naissitanos (demonym; inhabitant of Naissos) · people
Ναϊσσίτης	Naissites (inhabitant of Naissos) · people
Ναϊσσός	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3869982 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	And it seems that 'Naissitis' is from Naissos (i.e. the ethnicon/demonym Naissitis is derived from the place-name Naissos).
Morphological Composition	And, by derivation, locally 'Naissitanos' (i.e. the demonym Naissitanos is formed by derivation from the place-name).

Links

Place links	Naissus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1585.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐπιχώριος -α -ον (κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον) gloss:a5a8d4938aac5b47	local (in the local form) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πατρίς ἡ gloss:ae29764eb82bc9a3	fatherland Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.