place · explicit · wikidata: Q60790605 · seeded_headword_alignment
Etymologies
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Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative
Deipnias: a village of Thessaly near Larissa, where they say that Apollo first dined when, having been purified from the Tempe, he returned; and it is a custom that the boy who bears the laurel, coming to this place, dines here. Callimachus: 'Deipnias received him from there.'
Morphological Composition
The ethnic (demonym) is Δειπνιεύς, formed in the same way as Ἀφροδισιεύς and Ὀρθωσιεύς.