Χελωνῖτις - Stephanos Ethnika

Χελωνῖτις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Χελωνῖτις, νῆσος ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χελωνίτης. προελήφθη γὰρ τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐν τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ.

Chelonitis: an island in the Red Sea. The ethnonym is 'Chelonites', for the ethnonym is already present in the primary form.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#38
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 690.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-12
Word count	16
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Χελωνῖτις	Chelonitis · place
Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα	Red Sea · place
Χελωνίτης	Chelonitan (inhabitant/ethnic designation of Chelonitis) · people
Χελωνῖτις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q227496 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic form is Chelonites; for the ethnic form was already supplied in the original source/text.

Links

Place links	Zubair Group
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Translation Guidance

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
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.100

char LCS 24 (28.9%) · word LCS 5 (31.2%)

Stephanos

Χελωνῖτις, νῆσος ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χελωνίτης. προελήφθη γὰρ τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐν τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ.

Herodian

…ς· οὕτω δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Νίσυρος μία τῶν Κυκλάδων ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ πορφυρέων. ἀργυρίς, Ἰλλυρίς, Φιλυρίς, Ἀστυρίς ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ, Ἰδυρίς πόλις Παμφυλίας, ἣ καὶ Ἴδυρος. Κορκυρίς πόλις Αἰγύπτου. τὸ δὲ Θάμυρις προπαροξύνεται καὶ Ὤγυρις νῆσος ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. μέμνηται δὲ αὐτῆς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ λέγων ἀγχιβαθὴς δ´ ἄρα νῆσος ἁλὸς κατὰ βένθος Ἐρυθρῆς Ὤγυρις, ἔνθα τε τύμβος ἁλὸς μεδέοντος Ἐρύθρα κέκληται. καὶ Κάσυρις νῆσος Λυκίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. καὶ Τίβυρις πόλις Ἰταλίας. λέγετα…