Κάλυμνα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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island
Κάλυμνα, νῆσος, ἣν ὁ Σκήψιος πληθυντικῶς Καλύμνας φησί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καλύμνιος, ὡς Στράβων δεκάτῳ τὸ Καλύμνιον μέλι ἐκεῖ εἶναί φησι. λέγεται καὶ Καλυμνία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καλυμνιάτης.

Kalymna: an island, which the Skepsian gives in the plural as 'Kalymnas'. The ethnonym is 'Kalymnios', as Strabo in book 10 says that the 'Kalymnian' honey is there. It is also called 'Kalymnia'. The ethnonym is 'Kalymniates'.

Text Details

Entry#39
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 350.12 · Billerbeck Κ39
OCRgemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count26
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Σκήψιος (Skēpsios (Skhepsios))fr. 17 Gaede = FGrHist 2013 F 17b
Στράβων (Strabo)ι (10,5,19 [C 489,27])
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚάλυμναKalymna (Calymnos) · place · corrected · Q527809
ΚάλυμναKalymna (plural form) · place · corrected · Q527809
ΚαλύμνιοςCalymnian · people
Καλύμνιονthe Calymnian (substantive use) · other
ΚαλυμνίαKalymnia (alternate name) · place
ΚαλυμνιάτηςKalymniate/Calymnian (ethnic) · people
Κάλυμναplace · explicit · wikidata: Q527809 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Links

Place linksKalymnos | 📍 Map | Pleiades
Page scanse9783110219630_i0131.jpg
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (NOM. DERIVED NOUN) + Y (NOM. ETYMON)
formula:4e7b910409d678a8
"'X' is from Y"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (NOM.) + ὡς + Y (NOM. HOMOMORPH)
formula:1bb0974b95264dde
"'X' as in 'Y'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaτὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (NOM. ETHNONYM)
formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3
"The ethnonym is 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formulaὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME)
formula:d915b1886270056c
"as per X,"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Glossκαλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...)
gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed
is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο)
Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC		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.

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

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Last updated: 2026-05-12 10:38:25 UTC