Νῶρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Νῶρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Entry #88
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 480.7 | Billerbeck: Ν88
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 11
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Νῶρα (Nora) [place], Σάρδεις (Sardis) [place], Νωρανός (Noranos (inhabitant of Nora)) [people], Νωλανός (Nolanos (variant ethnicon)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: The ethnicon (demonym) 'Νωρανός' as 'Νωλανός'.
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Νῶρα, πόλις ἐν Σαρδοῖ τῇ νήσῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νωρανός ὡς Νωλανός.

Nōra: a city on the island of Sardo. The ethnic (gentilic) is Nōranos, as (one says) Nōlanos.

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Herodian 1.259

char LCS 23 (47.9%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Νῶρα, πόλις ἐν Σαρδοῖ τῇ νήσῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νωρανός ὡς Νωλανός.

Herodian

…1) τὰ δὲ ἀπὸ φωνήεντος ἀρχόμενα παροξύνεται, Ἥρα, ὥρα, ὀπώρα. Τὰ εἰς 'ρα' δισύλλαβα συνεσταλμένον ἔχοντα τὸ 'α' βαρύνεται, σφαῖρα, μοῖρα, πεῖρα, σφῦρα. Βοῦρα πόλις Ἀχαΐας ἀπὸ Βούρας θυγατρὸς Ἴωνος τοῦ Ξούθου καὶ Ἑλίκης. Νῶρα πόλις ἐν Σαρδοῖ τῇ νήσῳ. Σῶρα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Σοῦρα μαντεῖον Λυκίας. τὰ δὲ μὴ συνεσταλμένον τὸ 'α' ἔχοντα ὀξύνεται, ἰρά ἡ ἐκκλησία. τοῦτο δὲ διφορεῖται καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἐτυμολογίαν καὶ κατὰ τὴν γραφήν. εἰ μὲν γὰρ παρὰ τὸ εἴρω τὸ λέγω, διὰ διφθόγγου…