Νινόη

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Νινόη, ἡ ἐν Καρίᾳ Ἀφροδισιάς, κτισθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν Λελέγων. καὶ ἐκλήθη Λελέγων πόλις εἶτα ἐκλήθη Μεγάλη πόλις εἶτα ἀπὸ Νίνου Νινόη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νινοήτης, ὡς τὸ πύλη πυλήτης, ὅθεν “Πυλάτιδες ἀγοραί”, καὶ λίμνη λιμνήτης.

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Text Details

Entry#62
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 476.6
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count36

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
S. Tr.S. Tr. 638–39
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΝινόηNinoë (Ninōē) · place · corrected · Q618495
ΚαρίαCaria · place · corrected · Q193214
ἈφροδισιάςAphrodisias · place · corrected · Q4779720
ΠελασγοίPelasgians · people
ΛελέγεςLeleges · people
ΜεγάληMegale (the Great City) · place · corrected · Q989883
ΝῖνοςNinus · person
ΝινοήτηςNinoites (ethnic of Ninoë) · people
ΠυλάτιδεςPylatides (?) · other
Νινόηplace · explicit · wikidata: Q618495 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym Personfounded by the Pelasgians or the Leleges, and it was called the city 'Lelegōn' (Lelegon).
Morphological Compositionthen it was called 'Megale polis' (Great City).
Eponym Personthen (named) from Ninus: 'Ninoē' (i.e. named after Ninus).
Morphological Compositionthe ethnicon (demonym) 'Ninoētēs', formed like 'pylē' → 'pylētēs' (whence 'Pylatides agorai'), and 'limnē' → 'limnētēs'.

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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ 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
Formulaὡς + 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 · 1 occurrence
Glossκαλεῖται/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 · 3 occurrences
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.306
char LCS 112 (62.6%) · word LCS 22 (62.9%)
Stephanos
Νινόη, ἡ ἐν Καρίᾳ Ἀφροδισιάς, κτισθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν Λελέγων. καὶ ἐκλήθη Λελέγων πόλις εἶτα ἐκλήθη Μεγάλη πόλις εἶτα ἀπὸ Νίνου Νινόη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νινοήτης, ὡς τὸ πύλη πυλήτης, ὅθεν “Πυλάτιδες ἀγοραί”, καὶ λίμνη λιμνήτης.
Herodian
…ς κοίλης Συρίας. πέμπτη Κιλικίας. ἕκτη τῆς Αἰγύπτου πόλις ἐπὶ τοῦ Δέλτα. ἑβδόμη Κύπρου ἡ πρότερον Μάριον λεγομένη. ὀγδόη Αἰτωλίας. ἐνάτη Λύκτου. δεκάτη τῆς Τρωγλοδυτικῆς ἡ πρότερον Ὀλβία καλουμένη. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Λυκίας. Νινόη ἡ ἐν Καρίᾳ Ἀφροδισιὰς κτισθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν Λελέγων. καὶ ἐκλήθη Λελέγων πόλις. εἶτα ἐκλήθη Μεγάλη πόλις. εἶτα ἀπὸ Νίνου Νινόη. Ὀγχόη πόλις Φωκίδος. Ῥοδόη πόλις Ἰνδική. Σεθρόη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Φολόη πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἀπὸ Φόλου τοῦ Κενταύρου. Κολόη. Καλλιρρόη Νέστου θυγάτηρ· ἔστι καὶ Μαιάνδρου θυγάτηρ. λέγεται δὲ καὶ οὕτως λίμνη Συρίας. τὸ δὲ ἀκοή ἐ…

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