Νιφάτης - Stephanos Ethnika

Νιφάτης OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

mountain

Νιφάτης, ὄρος Ἀρμενίας. οὕτως γὰρ Ἀρκάδιος. ἔοικε δὲ παρὰ τὸ νείφειν, ἀλλ´ ὀνοματικῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφεται. καὶ Πείσανδρος ἑβδόμῳ “Ταύρου πρυμνώρειαν ἐυσκόπελόν τε Νιφάτην”.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#68
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 477.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	28

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρκάδιος (Arkadios)	RE II 1,1153 Nr. 5
Πεισάνδρος (Peisander)	fr. 7 Heitsch

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νιφάτης	Niphates (mountain) · place · corrected · Q60461
Ἀρμενία	Armenia · place · corrected · Q1423867
Ταῦρος	Taurus (mountain range) · place
Νιφάτης	place · explicit · wikidata: Q7039463 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	It seems to be from (the verb) 'neiphein' (to snow / be cloudy), but it is written nominally with an iota.

Links

Place links	Niphates \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1722.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (INFINITIVE denoting an etymology) formula:af28c8e3172cf77e	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	διὰ τοῦ + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF γράφειν] formula:93bec21ca1d8a38f	Translate as "writes/write/wrote/is written with X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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 1.75

char LCS 73 (52.9%) · word LCS 14 (56.0%)

Stephanos

Νιφάτης, ὄρος Ἀρμενίας. οὕτως γὰρ Ἀρκάδιος. ἔοικε δὲ παρὰ τὸ νείφειν, ἀλλ´ ὀνοματικῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφεται. καὶ Πείσανδρος ἑβδόμῳ “Ταύρου πρυμνώρειαν ἐυσκόπελόν τε Νιφάτην”.

Herodian

…εώτης, Ἀμβρακιώτης, Πηλιώτης, Φθιώτης, Ἰταλιώτης, Σικελιώτης. ἀσπιδιώτης—τὸ δὲ προπετής, ἀκρατής, τριετής σύνθετα. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ατης' τὸ 'α' μακρὸν ἔχοντα μὴ ὄντα ῥηματικὰ βαρύνεται, Εὐφράτης ποταμός, Νιφάτης ὄρος Ἀρμενίας. ἔοικε δὲ παρὰ τὸ νείφειν, ἀλλ´ ὀνοματικῶς διὰ τοῦ 'ι' γράφεται. καὶ Πείσανδρος ἑβδόμῳ »ταῦρον πρυμνώρειαν ἐϋσκόπελόν τε Νιφάτην«. Ἰλαραυγάτης ὁ Ἴβηρ· Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ Ἰλαραυγάτης ποταμός. Ἀντεμνάτης, Βεμβινάτης, Μεσολάτης, Ναπάτης, Πισάτης, Ῥαβεννάτης, Ῥεσινάτης, Σπινάτης, Ζαιάτης, Βαιάτης, Ἐλεάτης, Τεγεάτη…

Herodian 1.375

char LCS 19 (13.8%) · word LCS 5 (20.0%)

Stephanos

Νιφάτης, ὄρος Ἀρμενίας. οὕτως γὰρ Ἀρκάδιος. ἔοικε δὲ παρὰ τὸ νείφειν, ἀλλ´ ὀνοματικῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφεται. καὶ Πείσανδρος ἑβδόμῳ “Ταύρου πρυμνώρειαν ἐυσκόπελόν τε Νιφάτην”.

Herodian

…, ὅπερ δηλοῖ τὸν τόπον, εἰς ὃν οἱ κυβευταὶ συνίασι. ταμιεῖον, οἶκος ἐν ᾧ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα ἀπετίθεσαν ὡς Ἀριστοφάνης καὶ Κρατῖνος καὶ ἄλλοι. μαγειρεῖον, ἰατρεῖον, βυρσοδεψεῖον, δευτερεῖον, ὀπτανεῖον· παρὰ δὲ τοῖς Ἀττικοῖς καὶ διὰ τοῦ 'ι' γράφεται καὶ προπαροξύνεται οἷον ὀπτάνιον. κηρυκεῖον τὸ μονογενὲς καὶ προσηγορικόν, ὅπερ ἐπίσταται καὶ ἡ