Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις

Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

river

Entry #14
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 217.24 | Billerbeck: Δ14
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 38
Entities: Δάναυβις (Danube (Danubius)) [place], Δάναυβις (Danube (variant)) [place], Ἴστρος (Ister (ancient name of the Danube)) [place], Ματόας (Matoas (old name/eponym for the river)) [place], Σκύθαι (Scythians) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Danubis or Danousis (alternative names); Unclear Metalinguistic: formerly called Matoas; Folk Etymology Narrative: and when misfortune befell the Scythians it was thus called; Folk Etymology Narrative: Matoas is said in the Greek tongue to be 'aisios' (auspicious/fortunate), because often when crossing they suffered nothing; Morphological Composition: But Danousis is interpreted as 'as having the cause of erring'
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Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις, Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός, πάλαι Ματόας καλούμενος. συμφορᾶς δὲ τοῖς Σκύθαις ἐπιπεσούσης οὕτως ἐκλήθη. Ματόας δὲ λέγεται ἐς τὴν Ἑλληνίδα γλῶσσαν ἄσιος. ὅτι πολλάκις περαιούμενοι οὐδὲν ἐπεπόνθεισαν. ὁ δὲ Δάνουσις ἑρμηνεύεται ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχων αἰτίαν.

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char LCS 31 (13.9%) · word LCS 6 (15.8%)

Stephanos

Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις, Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός, πάλαι Ματόας καλούμενος. συμφορᾶς δὲ τοῖς Σκύθαις ἐπιπεσούσης οὕτως ἐκλήθη. Ματόας δὲ λέγεται ἐς τὴν Ἑλληνίδα γλῶσσαν ἄσιος. ὅτι πολλάκις περαιούμενοι οὐδὲν ἐπεπόνθεισαν. ὁ δὲ Δάνουσις ἑρμηνεύεται ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχ…

Herodian

… Κάραμβις ἄκρα τοῦ Πόντου. Πνέβεβις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, Ψινέκταβις κώμη Αἰγυπτία. Νίσιβις πόλις ἐν τῇ Περαίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τῷ Τίγρητι. Φίλων ἐν Φοινικικοῖς Νάσιβις φησὶ διὰ τοῦ 'α'. σημαίνει δέ, ὥς φησι Φίλων, νάσιβις τὰς στήλας. Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχων αἰτίαν. Ἄνουβις, κάνναβις. σημείωσαι τὸ καλλαβίς. Τὰ εἰς 'γις' δισύλλαβα ὀξύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἄρχοιντο ἀπὸ τοῦ 'γ', αἰγίς, μαγίς, σφαγίς, σφραγίς, Βρυγίς. τὸ μέντοι Γέργις βαρύνεται· ἀ…