Κεκροπία χώρα καὶ Κεκροπὶς φυλή

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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 region, and Kekropis, a tribe, from Kekrops. The ethnonym is also said to be 'Kekropios', 'Kekropia', and 'Kekropites', and in the feminine 'Kekropitis'; and the adverb from the place is 'Kekropiathen'. There is also Kekropis, a region of Thrace. There is also a deme of Thessalonike. The deme-members are 'Kekropioi'.

Text Details

Entry	#150
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 371.19 · Billerbeck Κ150
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	37
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κεκροπία	Kekropia (Cecropia) · place
Κεκροπίς	Kekropis (tribe) · people
Κεκροπίς	Kekropis (place in Thrace) · place
Κέκροπος	Cecrops · person
Κεκρόπιος	Kekropios (ethnic/adjective) · people
Κεκροπίτης	Kekropites (ethnic, masculine) · people
Κεκροπίτις	Kekropitis (ethnic, feminine) · people
Κεκροπίαθεν	from Kekropia (adverbial) · other
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Θεσσαλονίκη	Thessalonike / Thessalonica · place · corrected · Q17151
Κεκρόπιος	Kekropioi (inhabitants, plural) · people
Κεκροπία χώρα καὶ Κεκροπὶς φυλή	place · explicit · wikidata: Q20002809 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From (the eponym) Kekrops (Cecrops).
Morphological Composition	It 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 Composition	The adverb formed from the place: 'Kekropiathen' (from Kekropia).
Morphological Composition	The demesmen are called 'Kekropioi' — formation of the demotic from the place name.

Links

Place links	Kekropia (Pauly-Wissowa)
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0394.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	δῆμος ὁ gloss:e4ad995bede3b3b3	deme Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	φυλή ἡ gloss:d443eaa1b875776d	tribe Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 3 scan rows · 6 occurrences

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…