Κάλυμνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάλυμνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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 refers to in the plural as 'Kalymnai'. The ethnonym is 'Kalymnios', as Strabo in book 10 says that Kalymnian honey is from there. It is also called 'Kalymnia'. The ethnonym is 'Kalymniates'.

Text Details

Entry	#39
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 350.12
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count	26

Cited Authors

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

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάλυμνα	Kalymna (Calymnos) · place · corrected · Q527809
Κάλυμνα	Kalymna (plural form) · place · corrected · Q527809
Καλύμνιος	Calymnian · people
Καλύμνιον	the Calymnian (substantive use) · other
Καλυμνία	Kalymnia (alternate name) · place
Καλυμνιάτης	Kalymniate/Calymnian (ethnic) · people
Κάλυμνα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q527809 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Kalymnos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0131.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 · 3 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 · 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	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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