Μύρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μύρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #245
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 462.17 | Billerbeck: Μ245
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 25
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Μύρα (Myra) [place], Λυκία (Lycia) [place], Μύρων (Myron) [person], Μύρος (Myros (river)) [place], Μυρεύς (Myr(e)us (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: From μύρων (myron), i.e. from 'myrrh' or 'ointments'/'perfumes' (derivation from the common noun).; Eponym Person: From Μύρωνος (Myronos) — i.e. named after a person called Myronos (personal name).; Place Transfer: From the river Μύρος (Myrus) that flows alongside — i.e. named after a nearby river.; Unclear Metalinguistic: 'The first is better' — the author states a preference for the first etymology (from μύρων).
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Μύρα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυρεύς.

Myra: a city of Lycia, so called either from myrrh (myra), or from Myron, or from the river Myros flowing by it; but the first derivation is better. The name is also used both in the feminine and in the neuter. The ethnic (gentilic) is Myreus.

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Herodian 1.261

char LCS 89 (72.4%) · word LCS 19 (76.0%)

Stephanos

Μύρα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυρεύς.

Herodian

καὶ θύρα ἐκτείνοντα τὸ 'α' καὶ συστέλλοντα τὸ 'υ' παροξύνεται, ὡσαύτως καὶ Μύρα πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος· ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ οὐδετέρως. ὡσαύτως καὶ Ψύρα νῆσος μικρὰ πλησίον Χίου, ἣν ὁ ποιητὴς Ψυρίαν καλεῖ »νήσου ἐπὶ Ψυρίης« (Od. γ 171). τὸ δὲ Κύρα ἡ κρήνη ἐκτεῖνον τὸ 'υ' καὶ τὸ 'α' διὰ τοῦ 'η' ἐξηνέχθη Κύρη. σεσημείωται τὸ πυρά ὀξυνόμενον. τὸ…