Κορκυρίς

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Κ Kappa / Κορκυρίς
Κορκυρίς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Κορκυρίς, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ὡς ἁλμυρίς ἀργυρίς. ἡ δὲ Ψένυρις Αἰγυπτία κώμη βαρύνεται. ὁ πολίτης Κορκυρίτης.

Korkyris: a city of Egypt, as 'halmyris', 'argyris'. But Psenyris, an Egyptian village, is pronounced with the accent on the penult. A citizen is a 'Korkyrites'.

Text Details

Entry#165
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 374.16 · Billerbeck Κ165
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count15
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚορκυρίςKorkyris (Corcyris) · place
ΑἴγυπτοςEgypt · place
ΨένυριςPsenyris (an Egyptian village) · place
ΚορκυρίτηςKorkyrite (inhabitant of Korkyris) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological Composition'as ἁλμυρίς ἀργυρὶς' — literally 'salt-/sea-silver' (linking the name to Greek elements meaning 'salty' and 'silver')
Unclear Metalinguistic'the Psēnyris, an Egyptian village' — mentions the place-name Ψένυρις as an Egyptian village but gives no clear origin explanation
Morphological Composition'the citizen: Κορκυρίτης' — formation of the demonym from the place-name Κορκυρίς (place → citizen-name)

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Last updated: 2026-04-12 10:11:05 UTC