Δίζηρος - Stephanos Ethnika

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river

Δίζηρος, ποταμὸς Ἰλλυρίδος. Λυκόφρων “οἳ πρὸς βαθεῖ νάσσαντο Διζηροῦ πόρῳ”. ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ δίζησθαι τὴν Μήδειαν ὀνομασθείς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διζήριος καὶ Διζηρίτης, ὡς Ἄλωρος Ἀλωρίτης.

Dizeros: a river of Illyris. Lykophron: "who settled by the deep stream of Dizeros". Perhaps named from seeking Medeia. The ethnonym Dizerios and Dizerites, as 'Aloros' 'Alorites'.

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	#79
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 230.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	25

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(1026)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δίζηρος	Dizeros (river) · place · corrected · Q132157492
Ἰλλυρία	Illyria · place
Μήδεια	Medea · person
Διζήριος	Dizerios (ethnic) · people
Διζηρίτης	Dizerites (ethnic) · people
Ἄλωρος	Aloros · place
Ἀλωρίτης	Alorites (ethnic) · people
Δίζηρος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q132157492 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Perhaps from being named after Medea.

Links

Place links	Dizeros
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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Y (EPITHET) + X (DEITY) formula:e59d8efd6da15c82	Translate as "X Y" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · medium 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 · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.197

char LCS 99 (68.8%) · word LCS 17 (68.0%)

Stephanos

Δίζηρος, ποταμὸς Ἰλλυρίδος. Λυκόφρων “οἳ πρὸς βαθεῖ νάσσαντο Διζηροῦ πόρῳ”. ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ δίζησθαι τὴν Μήδειαν ὀνομασθείς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διζήριος καὶ Διζηρίτης, ὡς Ἄλωρος Ἀλωρίτης.

Herodian

… καὶ τὸ Φύλακος κύριον. Ἄβληρος κύριον. Ὅμηρος «Ἄβληρον ἐνήρατο δουρὶ φαεινῷ» (Ζ 32). Ψένηρος Αἰγυπτία κώμη. Κύθηρος ὁ Φοίνικος, ἀφ´ οὗ Κύθηρα νῆσος, καὶ δῆμος τῆς Πανδιονίδος φυλῆς. Δίγηρος ἔθνος Θρᾴκιον. Πολύβιος ιγʹ. Δίζηρος ποταμὸς Ἰλλυρίδος. Λυκόφρων ( 1026) «οἳ πρὸς βαθεῖ νάσσαντο Διζήρου πόρῳ». ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ δίζησθαι τὴν Μήδειαν ὀνομασθείς. Δόβηρος πόλις Παιονίας. Κάληρος βασιλεύς, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ἀλωπεκόννησος ἐκαλεῖτο Κάληρος. Στενύκληρος πόλις Μεσσήνης. ἐρίηρος, τριέτηρος, πενταέτηρος, τετραφάληρος. τὰ μέντοι διὰ τοῦ 'ηρος' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ἐπιθετικὰ ἔχοντα …