Καφηρεύς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #141
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 370.12 | Billerbeck: Κ141
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count: 23
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Καφηρεύς (Kaphereus (harbour/cape)) [place], Εὔβοια (Euboea) [place], Καθηρεὺς (Kathereus (variant of Καφηρεύς)) [place], Εὐβοεῖς (Euboeans) [people], Καφηρίς (Kapheris (feminine ethnicon/demonym)) [people], Καφήριος (Kaphērios (possessive/demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: “which was called Kathereus, because the Euboeans there used to kathēroun the voyagers (i.e. they used to [perform an action on/for] those sailing there).”
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Καφηρεύς, ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅς τις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοεῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καφηρίς, καὶ κτητικὸν Καφήριος.

Kaphereus: a harbor-town (ἐπίνειον) of Euboia, which was called Kathēreus, because the Euboeans “cleansed out” (καθῄρουν) those sailing there. The ethnicon is the same in form. The feminine is Kaphēris, and the possessive adjective Kaphērios.

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char LCS 73 (54.1%) · word LCS 8 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Καφηρεύς, ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅς τις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοεῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καφηρίς, καὶ κτητικὸν Καφήριος.

Herodian

…τιακῶν πρώτῃ. Ἐταιεῖς διὰ διφθόγγου ὡς Διπαιεῖς. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Λακωνική. Ἰμφεῖς ἔθνος προσεχὲς τοῖς Περραιβοῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ »Ἰμφέες, Περραιβοί«. Ἰουλεῖς οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἀπὸ βασιλέως, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ ὁ μήν, ἢ ἀπὸ Ἰουλίδος. Καφαρεύς ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅστις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοιεῖς. Λητωεύς δῆμος ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ, ὡς Τρύφων ἐν τῷ περὶ παρωνύμων, ὅτι παρὰ τὸ Λητῷος κτητικὸν σχηματίζεται. Μαλιεύς πόλις ἐπώνυμος τῶν Μαλιέων ἀπὸ Μάλου τοῦ Ἀμφικτύονος υἱοῦ ἢ Ἀμύρου τοῦ Βοιωτοῦ. Μωριεῖς ἔθνος Ἰνδικὸν …