Καπρίη

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Κ Kappa / Καπρίη
Καπρίη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
island
Καπρίη, νῆσος Ἰταλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. λέγονται καὶ Καπριαί· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καπριάτης. ἐντεῦθεν ἦν Βλαῖσος σπουδογελοίων ποιητὴς Καπριάτης.

Kaprie: an island of Italy. Hekataios in Europe. They are also called 'Kapriai'; the ethnonym is 'Kapriates'. From there came Blaisos, a poet of serio-comic poems, a 'Kapriates'.

Text Details

Entry#69
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 357.1 · Billerbeck Κ69
OCRgemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count17
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 63
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚαπρίηCapri · place · corrected · Q16178297
ἸταλίαItaly · place
ΚαπρίηCapri (plural/islands) · place · corrected · Q16178297
ΚαπριάτηςCapriote (demonym) · people
ΒλαῖσοςBlaisos · person
Καπρίηplace · explicit · wikidata: Q173292 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticThe entry names the island 'Capri' (an island of Italy), cites Hecataeus (Europa), records the variant form 'Kapriai' and the ethnicon 'Kapriates', and notes the poet Blaisos was a Capriote. No explanation is given for the origin of the name.

Links

Place linksCapri | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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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
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 · 1 occurrence
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		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.

Canonical URL: headword_2471.html

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