Μαῖα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Μαῖα, πόλις Ἑλλησποντία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαιάτης κατὰ πρόσθεσιν τοῦ « της ».

Maia: a city of the Hellespont. The ethnonym is 'Maiates', by the addition of -tes.

Text Details

Entry#13
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 425.18 · Billerbeck Μ13
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count10
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜαῖαMaia · place
ἙλλησποντίαHellespontia · place
ΜαιάτηςMaiatēs (ethnicon; inhabitant of Maia) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe ethnicon 'Μαιάτης' (Maiátēs) is formed by the addition (prefixation) of the suffix -της to the name.

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