Κεκροπία χώρα καὶ Κεκροπὶς φυλή

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κεκροπία, χώρα καὶ Κεκροπίς φυλή, ἀπὸ Κέκροπος. λέγεται καὶ Κεκρόπιος καὶ Κεκροπία καὶ Κεκροπίτης τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ θηλυκὸν Κεκροπῖτις, καὶ τὸ ἐκ τόπου ἐπίρρημα Κεκροπίαθεν. ἔστι καὶ Κεκροπίς χώρα Θρᾴκης. ἔστι καὶ δῆμος Θεσσαλονίκης. οἱ δημόται Κεκρόπιοι.

Kekropia, a country, and Kekropis, a tribe: from Kekrops. It is also called Kekropios and Kekropia, and the ethnonym is 'Kekropites', in the feminine 'Kekropitis', and the place-adverb is Kekropiathen. There is also Kekropis, a country of Thrace. There is also a deme of Thessalonike. The deme-members are Kekropioi.

Text Details

Entry#150
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 371.19 · Billerbeck Κ150
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count37
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚεκροπίαKekropia (Cecropia) · place
ΚεκροπίςKekropis (tribe) · people
ΚεκροπίςKekropis (place in Thrace) · place
ΚέκροποςCecrops · person
ΚεκρόπιοςKekropios (ethnic/adjective) · people
ΚεκροπίτηςKekropites (ethnic, masculine) · people
ΚεκροπίτιςKekropitis (ethnic, feminine) · people
Κεκροπίαθενfrom Kekropia (adverbial) · other
ΘρᾴκηThrace · place
ΘεσσαλονίκηThessalonike / Thessalonica · place
ΚεκρόπιοςKekropioi (inhabitants, plural) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym PersonFrom (the eponym) Kekrops (Cecrops).
Morphological CompositionIt is also called Kekropios, Kekropia, and Kekropites as the ethnic (masculine) and the feminine ethnic Kekropitis — formation of ethnic adjectives from the place/name.
Morphological CompositionThe adverb formed from the place: 'Kekropiathen' (from Kekropia).
Morphological CompositionThe demesmen are called 'Kekropioi' — formation of the demotic from the place name.

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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.98
char LCS 34 (16.3%) · word LCS 6 (16.2%)
Stephanos
Κεκροπία, χώρα καὶ Κεκροπίς φυλή, ἀπὸ Κέκροπος. λέγεται καὶ Κεκρόπιος καὶ Κεκροπία καὶ Κεκροπίτης τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ θηλυκὸν Κεκροπῖτις, καὶ τὸ ἐκ τόπου ἐπίρρημα Κεκροπίαθεν. ἔστι καὶ Κεκροπίς χώρα Θρᾴκης. ἔστι καὶ δῆμος Θεσσαλονίκης. οἱ δημόται Κεκρόπιοι.
Herodian
…ται, Ἰαπίς χαράδρα Ἀττικὴ εἰς Μέγαρα ἀπάγουσα ὡς Καλλίμαχος Ἑκάλῃ. Πριαπίς χώρα. τὸ δὲ Σάραπις νῆσος ἐν Ἰνδικῷ κόλπῳ βαρύνεται. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'οπις' πολυσύλλαβα μὴ ἔννοιαν ἔχοντα συνθέσεως ὀξύνεται, Κεκροπίς φυλή. ἔστι καὶ χώρα Θρᾴκης· ἔστι καὶ δῆμος Θεσσαλονίκης. Δρυοπίς, Αἰθιοπίς. Εὐριπίδης ἐν Ἀρχελάῳ «Αἰθιοπίδος γῆς ἡνίκ´ ἂν τακῇ χιών». Μεροπίς. οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Κῶς πόλις ἀπὸ γηγενοῦς Μέροπος. Ἰοπίς παρὰ Χάρακι. τὸ φύλοπις δὲ προπαροξύνεται. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ωπις' πολυσύλλαβα ὀξ…

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