Μέδμασα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μέδμασα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μέδμασα, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεδμασεύς τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας, ὡς Πηγασεύς.

Medmasa: a city of Karia. Hekataios in the Asia. The ethnonym Medmaseus by the type of the land, as 'Pegaseus'.

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	#113
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 440.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	14

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἀσία · FGrHist 1 F 244

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μέδμασα	Medmasa · place · corrected · Q23705354
Καρία	Caria · place · corrected · Q193214
Ἀσία	Asia · place
Μεδμασεύς	Medmaseus · people
Πηγασεύς	Pēgaseus · people
Μέδμασα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q23705354 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon 'Μεδμασεύς' (Medmaseus) is formed according to the local pattern of the region, like 'Πηγασεύς' (Pigaseus).

Links

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Page scans	e9783110219630_i1356.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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