Νικηφόριον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νικηφόριον, οὕτως ἡ Κωνσταντῖνα ἡ περὶ Ἔδεσσαν πόλις, ὡς Οὐράνιος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νικηφόριος ὡς Βυζάντιος.

Nikephorion: so Konstantina, the city near Edessa, as Ouranios. The ethnonym Nikephorios as 'Byzantios'.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#55
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 475.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Οὐράνιος (Ouranios)	FGrHist 675 F 29

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νικηφόριον	Nikephorion · place · corrected · Q12881740
Κωνσταντίνα	Konstantina (Constantina) · place
Ἔδεσσα	Edessa · place · corrected · Q1190403
Νικηφόριος	Nikephorios (demonym) · people
Βυζάντιος	Byzantios (Byzantine/Byzantium) · people
Νικηφόριον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q12881740 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Thus the city (is) Konstantina near Edessa, according to Ouranios.
Morphological Composition	The ethnic (demonym) is 'Nikēphorios', like 'Byzantius'.

Links

Place links	Nikephorion \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1677.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.365

char LCS 44 (52.4%) · word LCS 8 (53.3%)

Stephanos

Νικηφόριον, οὕτως ἡ Κωνσταντῖνα ἡ περὶ Ἔδεσσαν πόλις, ὡς Οὐράνιος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νικηφόριος ὡς Βυζάντιος.

Herodian

…τρίτη Σικελίας. τετάρτη Καμπανίας. παλινδόριον τὸ εἰργασμένον δέρμα, κιχόριον εἶδος βοτάνης. Ἀνακτόριον Ἀκαρνανίας πόλις, Κορινθίων ἄποικος. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ (c. 49). ἀρσενικῶς παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ. Χαλκητόριον πόλις Κρήτης. Νικηφόριον. οὕτως ἡ Κωνσταντῖνα ἡ περὶ Ἔδεσσαν πόλις. Βοσπόριον τοῦ Βυζαντίου λιμήν, ὃς καὶ Βόσπορος λέγεται. Ἀμόριον πόλις τῆς μεγάλης Φρυγίας. Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. Φιληνόριον