Δονουσία

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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island
Δονουσία, νῆσος μικρὰ Ῥόδου, εἰς ἣν Διόνυσος ἐκ Νάξου τὴν Ἀριάδνην μετεκόμισε, τοῦ πατρὸς Μίνω διώκοντος αὐτήν. ἔοικεν οὖν Διονυσία εἶναι, καὶ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Δονουσία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δονούσιος.

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Text Details

Entry#111
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 235.23
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count28

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΔονουσίαDonousia (island) · place · corrected · Q991283
ῬόδοςRhodes · place · corrected · Q13533316
ΔιόνυσοςDionysus · deity · corrected · Q41680
ΝάξοςNaxos · place · corrected · Q96575378
ἈριάδνηAriadne · person
ΜίνωςMinos · person
ΔιονυσίαDionysia (variant name of the island) · place
ΔονουσίοςDonousios (ethnic/demonym) · other
Δονουσίαplace · explicit · wikidata: Q991283 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym PersonIt (the island) to which Dionysus from Naxos brought Ariadne ... therefore it seems to be (called) Dionysia (i.e. named for Dionysus).
Morphological Compositionand by corruption (paraphthora) [the name] Donousia (i.e. Donousia is a corrupted form of Dionysia).

Links

Place linksDonoussa | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE)
formula:0a6d211492d74a05
Translate as "a X of the Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaκαί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN)
formula:0af867b3dd6df580
Translate as "Y is also 'X'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaτὸ 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 · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.293
char LCS 58 (37.2%) · word LCS 9 (32.1%)
Stephanos
Δονουσία, νῆσος μικρὰ Ῥόδου, εἰς ἣν Διόνυσος ἐκ Νάξου τὴν Ἀριάδνην μετεκόμισε, τοῦ πατρὸς Μίνω διώκοντος αὐτήν. ἔοικεν οὖν Διονυσία εἶναι, καὶ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Δονουσία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δονούσιος.
Herodian
…ν ἀμπρεύσουσι νήλιποι βίον. Κορησσία πολίχνιον τῆς Κέω. Κραβασία πόλις Ἰβήρων. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Δελφουσία πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ὡς Ἀνδροτίων ἐν βʹ Ἀτθίδος. Διονυσία πόλις Ἰταλίας. Δονουσία νῆσος μικρὰ Ῥόδου, εἰς ἣν Διόνυσος ἐξ Νάξου τὴν Ἀριάδνην μετεκόμισε τοῦ πατρὸς Μίνω διώκοντος αὐτήν. ἔοικε οὖν Διονυσία εἶναι καὶ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Δονουσία. Μασσία χώρα παρακειμένη τοῖς Ταρτησσίοις. Ἑκατησία· οὕτως ἡ Ἰδριὰς πόλις ἐκαλεῖτο Καρίας. Μολοσσία ἡ χώρα τῆς Ἠπείρου. Μυσία ἡ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Λυδοὶ δὲ τὴν ὀξύην μυσόν φα…

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