Κασσίτερα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κασσίτερα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Κασσίτερα, νῆσος ἐν τῷ ὠκεανῷ, τῇ Ἰνδικῇ προσεχής, ὡς Διονύσιος ἐν Βασσαρικοῖς. ἐξ ἧς ὁ κασσίτερος.

Kassitera: an island in the ocean, adjoining India, as Dionysios says in his Bassarika. Tin is from it.

Text Details

Entry	#114
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 365.19 · Billerbeck Κ114
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	25
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Διονύσιος (Dionysius)	Βασσαρικοῖς · fr. 10 Livrea = p. 61 Heitsch
Βασσαρικοῖς ((work title) Bassarikois (Βασσαρικοῖς))	fr. 10 Livrea = p. 61 Heitsch
Livrea (Livrea (editor))	fr. 10 Livrea = p. 61 Heitsch
Heitsch (Heitsch (editor))	fr. 10 Livrea = p. 61 Heitsch

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κασσίτερα	Kassitera (Cassitera) — island · place
Ὠκεανός	Ocean (Oceanus) · place
Ἰνδική	the Indian (Sea/region) / India · place · corrected · Q17055962
Κασσίτερα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q12282341 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	But against these the Kassoploi themselves say the same, perhaps wrongly.

Links

Place links	Kassitera, Rhodope \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0314.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 occurrence
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	X (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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προσεχής -ες (+ dative) gloss:3d5be602ab263899	bordering, adjoining Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

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.