Βυσσός

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Βυσσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Βυσσός, ἐθνικόν, καὶ ὀξυτόνως, ὡς Ἡρωδιανός. λέγεται καὶ ὁ βυθός. τὸ μέντοι θηλυκὸν βύσσος βαρύνεται, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ βύσσινον.

Byssos: an ethnic, and oxytone, as Herodian. The depth is also so called. The feminine 'byssos', however, is barytone, from which also 'byssinon'.

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.

Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH)
formula:1bb0974b95264dde
Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress
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.