Νῦσαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Νῦσαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Νῦσαι, πόλεις πολλαί. πρώτη ἐν Ἑλικῶνι. δευτέρα ἐν Θρᾴκῃ. τρίτη ἐν Καρίᾳ. τετάρτη ἐν Ἀραβίᾳ. πέμπτη ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. ἕκτη ἐν Νάξῳ. ἑβδόμη ἐν Ἰνδοῖς. ὀγδόη ἐπὶ τοῦ Καυκάσου ὄρους. ἐνάτη ἐν Λιβύῃ. δεκάτη ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ, ἔνθα διὰ μιᾶς ἡμέρας τὴν ἄμπελόν φασιν ἀνθεῖν καὶ τὸν βότρυν πεπαίνεσθαι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νυσεύς καὶ Νυσαΐς θηλυκόν, ἀφ´ οὗ κτητικὸν Νυσήιος. λέγεται καὶ Νυσαῖος, καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ Νυσαιεύς τρισυλλάβως καὶ Νυσαεύς ἄνευ τοῦ « ι ».

Nysai: many cities. First on Helikon. Second in Thrace. Third in Karia. Fourth in Arabia. Fifth in Egypt. Sixth in Naxos. Seventh among the Indians. Eighth on Mount Caucasus. Ninth in Libya. Tenth in Euboia, where they say in a single day the vine blossoms and the cluster ripens. The ethnonym Nyseus and Nysais feminine, from which the possessive Nyseios. Also said Nysaios, and from it Nysaieus trisyllabically and Nysaeus without the 'i'.

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	#83
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 479.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	70

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νῦσα	Nysa (pl. Nysai — several cities called Nysa) · place · corrected · Q60791139
Ἑλικών	Helicon (mountain) · place · corrected · Q215516
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Καρία	Caria · place · corrected · Q193214
Ἀραβία	Arabia · place · corrected · Q57751375
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Νάξος	Naxos · place · corrected · Q96575378
Ἰνδοί	Indians / India · people
Καῦκασος	(Mount) Caucasus · place
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Εὐβοῖα	Euboea · place · corrected · Q173096
Νυσεύς	Nyseus (ethnic name) · people
Νυσαῖς	Nysaïs (feminine ethnic form) · people
Νυσήιος	Nusēios / Nysaian (possessive adjective) · other
Νυσαῖος	Nysaian (variant) · people
Νυσαιεύς	Nysaeus (trisyllabic ethnic form) · people
Νυσαεύς	Nysaeus (variant without iota) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) 'Νυσεύς' and the feminine 'Νυσαΐς', from which the adjectival/possessive form 'Νυσῆιος'.
Morphological Composition	It is also said 'Νυσαῖος', and from this 'Νυσαιεύς' (three-syllabled) and 'Νυσαεύς' without the i.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (MASCULINE ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:04e9b95236efcdc4	Translate as "X... from/after whom is 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (NEUTER ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:36c80425f64385f6	Translate as "X... from which is Y" or "X... as per 'Y'" 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 18 occurrences
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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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
Gloss	πόλισμα τό * gloss:9651cd1c383eacc4	town Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.