Πότνιαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Πότνιαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Πότνιαι, πόλις Βοιωτίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ποτνιεύς καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Ποτνιάς. λέγεται καὶ Πότνιος καὶ τὸ κτητικὸν Ποτνιακός καὶ Ποτνιακή.

Potniai: a city of Boiotia. The ethnonym Potnieus and the feminine Potnias. Also said Potnios and the possessive Potniakos and Potniake.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#222
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 533.21
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-16
Word count	19

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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.