Κάστνιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάστνιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

mountain

Κάστνιον, ὄρος ἐν Ἀσπένδῳ τῆς Παμφυλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κάστνιος καὶ Κάστνιον, ἐξ οὗ καὶ Καστνιήτης. ἔδει δὲ Καστνιώτης ὡς Πηλιώτης.

Kastnion: a mountain at Aspendos in Pamphylia. The ethnonym is 'Kastnios' and 'Kastnion', from which also 'Kastnietes'. However, it should be 'Kastniotes', as in 'Peliotes'.

Human translation — reviewed

Text Details

Entry	#121
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 366.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	51

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάστνιον	Kastnion · place
Ἄσπενδος	Aspendos · place · corrected · Q633757
Παμφυλία	Pamphylia · place · corrected · Q585250
Κάστνιος	Kastnios (ethnic name) · people
Καστνιήτης	Kastnietes (inhabitant) · people
Καστνιώτης	Kastniotes (inhabitant) · people
Πηλιώτης	Peliote (inhabitant of Pelion) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Herodotus says that Kastion is a certain plain of Syria, as they told him.
Folk Etymology Narrative	And that there was a river Kastolos, the Lydians say (it is) of the Dorians.
Place Transfer	There was also a city in Lydia called Kastolos.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) Kastiéus, Kastiōnos. The ethnicon Kastólios (like Spartólios), and the possessive Kastolikós.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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