Ναϊσσός

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Ν Nu / Ναϊσσός
Ναϊσσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Ναϊσσός, πόλις Θρᾴκης, κτίσμα καὶ πατρὶς Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ βασιλέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ναϊσσιτανός. καὶ ἔοικεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ναϊσσός Ναϊσσίτης καὶ κατὰ παραγωγὴν ἐπιχωρίως Ναϊσσιτανός.

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Text Details

Entry#4
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 467.3 · Billerbeck Ν4
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count23

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΝαϊσσόςNaissos (Naissus; modern Niš) · place · corrected · Q3869982
ΘρᾴκηThrace · place · corrected · Q41741
ΚωνσταντίνοςConstantine · person
ΝαϊσσιτανόςNaissitanos (demonym; inhabitant of Naissos) · people
ΝαϊσσίτηςNaissites (inhabitant of Naissos) · people
Ναϊσσόςplace · explicit · wikidata: Q3869982 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

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

Links

Place linksNaissus | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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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.

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Last updated: 2026-05-15 11:04:31 UTC