Καύκασος - Stephanos Ethnika

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mountain

Entry #135
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 368.20 | Billerbeck: Κ135
OCR: simple request (gpt-5.1) on 2025-12-18
Word count: 46
Entities: Καύκασος (Caucasus (mountain)) [place], Προπαντάνιον (Propantanion (alternate name for the mountain)) [place], Ἀσία (Asia) [place], Καυκάσιος (Caucasian (ethnic/ethnicon)) [people], Καυκασία (Caucasia (feminine ethnicon/place)) [people], Καυκασιανός (Caucasian (ethnic)) [people], Κασπιανός (Caspian (as ethnicon/adjective)) [people], Καυκάσιος (Caucasian (neuter form)) [people], Καυκασίτης (Caucasite / inhabitant of the Caucasus) [people], Ὀσαπίτης (Osapite (inhabitant of Osdia)) [people], Ὀσδία (Osdia (region/place)) [place]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: the mountain, which they also call 'Propantanion' (i.e. it is also called Propantanion).; Morphological Composition: the ethnic adjective Καυκάσιος and the feminine Καυκασία for the country, from which Καυκασιανός (analogous to Κασπιανός), and the neuter Καυκάσιον.; Morphological Composition: it is also said (formed) by the i: Καύκασος, from which Καυκασίτης (is formed), like Ὀσαπίτης from Ὀσδία.
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Καύκασος, τὸ ὄρος, ὃ καὶ Παροπάνισον καλοῦσι, τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν ὀρῶν μέγιστον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καυκάσιος καὶ Καυκασία θηλυκῶς ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ Καυκασιανός ὡς Κασπιανός. καὶ οὐδετέρως Καυκάσιον. λέγεται καὶ διὰ τοῦ « ι » Καύκασις, ἐξ οὗ τὸ Καυκασίτης, ὡς τὸ Ὀασίτης τῆς Ὀάσιος.

Caucasus: the mountain, which they also call Paropanisus, the greatest of the mountains in Asia. The ethnic adjective is *Caucasius*; and (in the feminine) *Caucasia* for the country, from which comes *Caucasianus*, as (one says) *Caspianus*. Also in the neuter, *Caucasium*. It is also said with an iota, *Caucasis*, from which comes *Caucasites*, as *Oasites* (is formed) from *Oasis*.

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Stephanos

Καύκασος, τὸ ὄρος, ὃ καὶ Παροπάνισον καλοῦσι, τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν ὀρῶν μέγιστον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καυκάσιος καὶ Καυκασία θηλυκῶς ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ Καυκασιανός ὡς Κασπιανός. καὶ οὐδετέρως Καυκάσιον. λέγεται καὶ διὰ τοῦ « ι » Καύκασις, ἐξ οὗ τὸ Καυκασίτης, ὡς τὸ Ὀασίτης τῆς Ὀάσιος.

Herodian

… Καρίας ἐν ὁμωνύμῳ νήσῳ κειμένη, ἡ καὶ ὀξυτόνως λεγομένη, Ἴασος δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἄργος ἀπὸ Ἰάσου τοῦ κατ´ ἐνίους πατρὸς Ἰοῦς. Ἴμβρασος ποταμὸς καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ ἡ Σάμος, Τράγασος, ἀφ´ οὗ Τραγασαί χωρίον ἐν ἠπείρῳ, Καύκασος τὸ ὄρος τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν ὀρῶν μέγιστον, λέγεται καὶ Καύκασις διὰ τοῦ 'ι', Βάργασος, ὁ υἱὸς Βάργης καὶ Ἡρακλέους, ἀφ´ οὗ Βάργασα πόλις Καρίας, Μύλασος υἱὸς Χρυσάορος τοῦ Γλαύκου τοῦ Σισύφου τοῦ Αἰόλου, ἀφ´ οὗ Μύλασα πόλις Καρίας. λέγεται καὶ ἡ πόλις Μύλασος, …