Κορσίς - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Entry #174
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 376.13 | Billerbeck: Κ174
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Κορσίς (Corsica (island)) [place], Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγος (Tyrrhenian Sea) [place], Κόρσης (Korses (personal name)) [person], Κορσική (Corsica (alternate name)) [place], Κορσοί (Corsicans) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from Kórsēs, a slave/servant of a cowherd (i.e. named after Korses, the slave of a herdsman).
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Κορσίς, νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει, ἀπὸ Κόρσης δούλης βουκόλου. λέγεται καὶ Κορσική· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κορσοί.

Korsis: an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, [so called] from Korsē, a slave-girl of a herdsman. It is also called Korsikē. The ethnic (gentilic) is Korsioi.

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Herodian 1.102

char LCS 31 (36.0%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Κορσίς, νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει, ἀπὸ Κόρσης δούλης βουκόλου. λέγεται καὶ Κορσική· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κορσοί.

Herodian

…υἱός, Κρουσίς μοῖρα τῆς Μυγδονίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. Βροῦσος Ἠμαθίου παῖς Βρουσίς μοῖρα Μακεδονίας. τινὲς γράφουσι διὰ τοῦ 'υ'. Κρής καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Κρητός γενικῆς Κρῆτις καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ' Κρησίς. Κόρση δούλη βουκόλος Κορσίς νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει. Πισίδης Πισίς πόλις καὶ ὄρος Ἀρμενίας ἢ Σουσιανῆς. Ἀρκασίδης Ἀρκασίς. Γυμνησίς ἀπὸ Γύμνητος γενικῆς τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ'. Μαγνησίς παρὰ Παρθενίῳ. Ἀμνισίς νύμφαι Ἀμνισίδες, Ἀνθεμουσίς λίμνη Μαριανδυνῶν, ἣν Ἀπολλώνιος δ…