Δημόνησος - Stephanos Ethnika

Δημόνησος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Δημόνησος, περὶ Χαλκηδόνα νῆσος, ἀπὸ Δημονήσου τινός. ἔχει δ´ ὁ τόπος κυανοῦ μέταλλον καὶ χρυσοκόλλης. καὶ χρυσίον εὑρίσκεται τίμιον, ὀφθαλμῶν τε φάρμακόν ἐστιν. ὁ νησιώτης Δημονήσιος.

Demonesos: an island near Chalkedon, from a certain Demonesos. The place has a mine of blue copper and of chrysokolla. And valuable gold is found, and it is a remedy for the eyes. The islander Demonesios.

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.

Text Details

Entry	#64
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 227.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-02
Word count	28

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δημόνησος	Demonesos (island) · place · corrected · Q253317
Χαλκηδών	Chalcedon · place · corrected · Q337381
Δημόνησος	Demonesos (gen.) · place · corrected · Q253317
Δημονησίος	Demonesios (islander) · person
Δημόνησος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q253317 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Demonnesos (the island) — from a certain Demonesos (i.e. named after a person called Demonesos).

Links

Place links	Heybeliada \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_065.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	νησιώτης ὁ gloss:ef8de9dec54fa178	islander Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τόνος ὁ gloss:06fca58898cc9623	stress (oxytone if + ὀξύς; barytone if + βαρύς) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.