Νεῖλος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νεῖλος, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς “καὶ ἱρὸν Νείλου τοῦ ποταμοῦ”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πόλεως Νειλοπολίτης. εἰ δὲ ἡ πόλις μόνη κέκληται, ὀφείλει ἕπεσθαι τῷ κτητικῷ τοῦ ποταμοῦ Νειλαῖος, ὡς Ἀπολλώνιός φησιν. “ὅσα γὰρ τῶν κτητικῶν ἀρ.. τοῦ « ι » ἢ τὴν γενικὴν ποιεῖ τοῦ πρωτοτύπου ἢ τὴν εὐθεῖαν, ταῦτα μόνον διὰ τοῦ « ι » ἐκφέρεται, Ποσειδώνιος Ἑλικώνιος Ῥόδιος Σάκιος. τὰ δὲ φύσει διὰ διφθόγγου παραληγόμενα οὐδέποτε τὸ προκείμενον σχῆμα ἀποτελεῖ. οὐδὲ γὰρ τὸ κηπαῖος ἢ Νειλαῖος ἐθνικὸν αὐτὸ ὁμολόγως παραλαμβάνει”.

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Text Details

Entry	#30
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 471.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	79

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει · FGrHist 1 F 319
Ἀπολλώνιος (Apollonius)	GG II 3,47,23
Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidonius)	—
Ἑλικώνιος (Heliconius)	—
Ῥόδιος (Rhodian (the Rhodian))	—
Σάκιος (Sakios)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νεῖλος	Neilos (city) · place · corrected · Q3704933
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Νειλοπολίτης	Neilopolitan (inhabitant of Neilos) · people
Νειλαῖος	Neilaîos (adjectival/possessive form from Neilos) · other
Νεῖλος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3704933 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	If the city alone is called (Neilos), it ought to follow the possessive adjective of the river — Neilaîos.
Morphological Composition	The ethnikon (demonym) of the city is 'Neilopolites'.
Morphological Composition	Hecataeus in his Periegesis of it: '...and the sanctuary of the river Nile.' (i.e. linking the place to the river Nile)
Morphological Composition	For those possessive adjectives which, apart from the iota, either make the genitive of the original or the direct (simple) form of the source, these are produced only by means of an iota; e.g. 'Poseidōnios', 'Helikōnios', 'Rhódios', 'Sákios'.
Morphological Composition	But words that by nature end in a diphthong never produce the foregoing form; for neither 'kēpaîos' nor 'Neilaîos' takes that ethnikon uniformly.

Links

Place links	Nilopolis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1636.jpg
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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 4 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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.

Herodian 1.155

char LCS 55 (13.1%) · word LCS 9 (11.4%)

Stephanos

Νεῖλος, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς “καὶ ἱρὸν Νείλου τοῦ ποταμοῦ”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πόλεως Νειλοπολίτης. εἰ δὲ ἡ πόλις μόνη κέκληται, ὀφείλει ἕπεσθαι τῷ κτητικῷ τοῦ ποταμοῦ Νειλαῖος, ὡς Ἀπολλώνιός φησιν. “ὅσα γὰρ τῶν κτητικῶν ἀρ.. τοῦ « ι » ἢ τὴν γενικὴν ποιεῖ τοῦ πρωτοτύπου ἢ τὴν εὐθε…

Herodian

δὲ κατὰ πάθος. καὶ τὸ Νεῖλος βαρύνεται. ἔστι δὲ ποταμὸς Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς «καὶ ἱρὸν Νείλου τοῦ ποταμοῦ». λέγεται δὲ κατὰ διάλεκτον Νῆλος. καὶ τὸ δειλός ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'λος' δισύλλαβα κύρια τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα περισπᾶται, οἷον Μῆλος Μαντοῦς υἱός, ἀφ´ οὗ Μαλόεις τόπος ἐν Λέσβῳ, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος ἐν Λεσβιακῶν πρώτῳ καὶ Μῆλος μ…