Κοσύτη - Stephanos Ethnika

Κοσύτη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κοσύτη, πόλις Ὀμβρική. Κτησίας τρίτῃ περιηγήσεως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κοσυταῖος ὡς Μοτυαῖος τῆς Μοτύης [Σικελίας πόλις].

Kosyte: an Umbrian city. Ktesias in book 3 of his Periegesis. The ethnonym is 'Kosytaios' (as in 'Motyaios' from Motye, a city of Sicily).

Text Details

Entry	#187
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 378.19 · Billerbeck Κ187
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	15
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Κτησίας (Ktesias)	Περιήγησις · FGrHist 688 F 59

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κοσύτη	Kosyte (city) · place
Ὀμβρική	Ombrikē (place) · place
Κοσυταῖος	ethnicon: inhabitant of Kosyte (Kosutaean) · people
Μοτυαῖος	ethnicon: inhabitant of Motya (Motyaean) · people
Μοτύη	Motya (city in Sicily) · place · corrected · Q962184
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) 'Kosytaîos' (Κοσυταῖος), like 'Motyaios' (Μοτυαῖος) of Motyē (Μοτύη, a city of Sicily).

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	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

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.