Κορκυρίς - Stephanos Ethnika

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 in Egypt; 'Korkyris' as in 'halmyris', 'argyris'. Psenyris, however, an Egyptian village, is barytone. A citizen is a 'Korkyrites'.

Text Details

Entry	#165
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 374.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	15
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κορκυρίς	Korkyris (Corcyris) · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Ψένυρις	Psenyris (an Egyptian village) · place
Κορκυρίτης	Korkyrite (inhabitant of Korkyris) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κώμη ἡ gloss:e14972622087326b	village Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τόνος ὁ gloss:06fca58898cc9623	stress (oxytone if + ὀξύς; barytone if + βαρύς) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	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.