Οἴτυλος - Stephanos Ethnika

Οἴτυλος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #36
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 487.15 | Billerbeck: Ο36
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 22
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Οἴτυλος (Oitylos) [place], Λακωνική (Laconia) [place], Οἴτυλος (Oitylos) [place], Οἴτυλος (Oitylos) [place], Οἰτύλιος (Oitylios) [other]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From the hero Oitylos — the town is said to be named after the hero Oitylos.; Morphological Composition: Some say that the initial οι is the (Greek) article — i.e. the name involves the article 'οι' plus the rest of the word.
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Οἴτυλος, πόλις Λακωνικῆς. “ἠδ´ Οἴτυλον”, ὡς δάκτυλον, ἀπὸ τοῦ Οἰτύλου ἥρωος. τινὲς δὲ τὸ « οι » ἄρθρον φασὶ καὶ τὴν πόλιν Τύλον· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰτύλιος.

Oitylos: a city of Laconia. “and Oitylon” (Il. 2.585), with the accent as in dáktylon, from the hero Oitylos. But some say that the oi is the article. Some [give] the ethnic as Oitylios.

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