Εὐφρατίς - Stephanos Ethnika

Εὐφρατίς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Εὐφρατίς, ἡ Συρία, ἀπὸ τοῦ παρακειμένου ποταμοῦ. ἐλέγοντο αὐτὸς καὶ Ἀράξης ἀδελφοί, ῥέοντες ἐξ ὄρους Ἀρμενίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐφρατίτης ὡς Προσωπίτης.

Euphratis: Syria, from the adjacent river. It and the Araxes were called brothers, flowing from a mountain of Armenia. The ethnonym Euphratites as 'Prosopites'.

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	#176
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 288.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	21

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὐφράτης	Euphrates · place · corrected · Q34589
Συρία	Syria · place · corrected · Q13415123
Ἄραξ	Araxes · place · corrected · Q179751
Ἀρμενία	Armenia · place · corrected · Q1423867
Εὐφρατίτης	Euphratite (ethnic name) · people
Προσωπίτης	Prosopite / Prosopitis (ethnic name) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	(The region) Syria, from the nearby river.
Folk Etymology Narrative	It and the Araxes were said to be brothers, flowing from the mountain of Armenia.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon Εὐφρατίτης (Euphratites), analogous to Προσωπίτης (Prosopitis).

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in '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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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.

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