Καύκασος - Stephanos Ethnika

ΚαύκασοςLow Confidence OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

mountain

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.

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Text Details

Entry	#135
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 368.20 · Billerbeck Κ135
OCR	simple request (gpt-5.1) on 2025-12-18
Word count	46
Translation status	Nearly all differences are orthographic/diacritic (accents, breathings, spacing, and quotation marks). The only clear substantive difference is the morphological form οὐδέτερος (Billerbeck) vs οὐδετέρως (Meineke), which changes grammatical role and could affect meaning.

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καύκασος	Caucasus (mountain) · place · corrected · Q5477
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
Καύκασος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5477 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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.

Links

Place links	Caucasus Mountains \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0349.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 (MASCULINE ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:04e9b95236efcdc4	Translate as "X... from/after whom is 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (NEUTER ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:36c80425f64385f6	Translate as "X... from which is Y" or "X... as per 'Y'" 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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 2 occurrences
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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.

Herodian 1.209

char LCS 27 (12.3%) · word LCS 6 (13.0%)

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, …