Ἐθνῖται
ethnites, fellow ethnos-members
Translated by Constantina Katsari30 Jun 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] those [coming] out of the same ethnos.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐθνῖται· οἱ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔθνους.
Betacode
*)eqni=tai: oi( e)k tou= au)tou= e)/qnous.
Notes
- Likewise in Pausanias the Atticist epsilon11 and other lexica (also post-Suda, twice in Eusthatius' Commentary on Homer's Iliad). The headword (here nominative plural) is unattested outside lexicography.
Beyond the unexceptionable etymological point made, the substantive meaning of the headword would depend, in context, upon what ethnos meant there: people, nation, tribe, whatever; cf. generally epsilon 327.