Ὁδός

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Ὁδός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #12
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 483.19 | Billerbeck: Ο12
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Ἑρμῆς (Hermes) [deity]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: 'Hodos' (Ὁδός): from ἑδός (i.e. derived from the word ἑδός).; Morphological Composition: 'the trodden path' (definition/semantic explanation of the name: a beaten track).; Morphological Composition: 'the derivatives are ὅδιος and ἐνόδιος' (adjectival formations from ὁδός).; Folk Etymology Narrative: 'and ὅδιος (is) Hermes' — i.e. Hermes is called ὅδιος (an epithet linking the god to roads/guide), a cultural/folk association rather than strict linguistic derivation.
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Ὁδός, παρὰ τὸ ἑδός, ἡ πεπατημένη τρίβος. τὸ παράγωγον ὅδιος καὶ ἐνόδιος, καὶ ὅδιος Ἑρμῆς.
Hodos: derived from hedos, the beaten path that is walked. The derivative forms are hodios and enodios; and also “Hodios Hermes.”

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