Καμμανία - Stephanos Ethnika

Καμμανία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Καμμανία, μοῖρα Θεσπρωτίας. μετωνομάσθη δὲ Κεστρινία ἐξ ἧς Κάδμος ὁ ποταμός. Κεστρῖνος δὲ κτίσμα Κεστρίνου τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἑλένου τοῦ Πριαμίδου. οἱ οἰκήτορες Καμμανοί, ὡς τῆς Καμπανίας Καμπανοί.

Kammania: a region of Thesprotia. It was renamed Kestrinia, from which comes the river Kadmos. Kestrinos is a foundation of Kestrinos son of Helenos the Priamid. The inhabitants are 'Kammanoi', just as 'Kampanoi' is from the name Kampania.

Text Details

Entry	#49
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 351.22
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count	27
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καμμανία	Kammania · place
Θεσπωρία	Thesprotia · place · corrected · Q2551754
Κεστρινία	Kestrinia · place · corrected · Q21645767
Κάδμος	Cadmus · place
Κεστρίνη	Kestrine · place
Κεστρίνος	Kestrinos · person · corrected · Q1045153
Ἑλένος	Helenos (Helenus) · person · corrected · Q729332
Πριαμίδης	Priamides (son of Priam) · person · corrected · Q170473
Καμμανοί	Kammanoi · people
Καμπανία	Campania · place
Καμπανοί	Campanians · people
Kammania / Kestrinia	place · district · Thesprotia · explicit · unresolved
Kadmos (river)	place · river · Thesprotia · explicit · wikidata: Q27613 · candidate
Kestrinos	place · settlement · Thesprotia · explicit · wikidata: Q1045153 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	and it was renamed Kestrinia.
Eponym Person	Kestrine is a settlement of Kestrinos, the son of Helenus, son of Priamidus (i.e. named after Kestrinos).
Place Transfer	From which (comes) the river Kadmos (i.e. the river takes its name from that place).
Morphological Composition	The inhabitants are called Kammanoi, like the Campanians are called Campanoi (formation of the demonym).

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 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	κτίσμα τό gloss:fb49af0b4b56155e	foundation Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	μοῖρα ἡ gloss:f14779ed84e09347	region or part (in geographic contexts); district (in urban contexts only) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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