Βασανίσαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Βασανίσαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Βασανίσαι, ἔθνος Θρᾴκιον ἀπὸ τῆς ὁ Βασανίσης εὐθείας. τινὰ δὲ τῶν βιβλίων Βανίσαι ἔχουσι τρισυλλάβως.

'Basanisai', a Thracian people, is from the nominative 'Basanises'. Some manuscripts have 'Banisai' in three syllables.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Entry	#47
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 159.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-07
Word count	15
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Entity	Details
Βασανίσαι	Basanisai · place
Θρᾴκιος	Thracian · people
Βασανίσης	Basanises · person
Βανίσαι	Banisai (variant form of Basanisai) · place

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	from the straight (or direct) [line/route] of Basanisis; the wording is grammatically corrupt or uncertain, so the precise etymological relation is unclear.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Some books, however, have the form ‘Banisai’ in three syllables.

Page scans	vol1_406.jpg
Review	Open review page

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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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.