Κρότων - Stephanos Ethnika

Κρότων OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #231
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: - | Billerbeck: Κ231
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 52
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Κρότων (Croton) [place], Ἰταλία (Italy) [place], Ῥήγιον (Rhegion (Reggio)) [place], Αἴσαρος (Aisaros (river)) [place], Τυρρηνία (Tyrrhenia (Etruria)) [place], Κροτωνιᾶται (Crotonians (male citizens)) [people], Κροτωνιᾶτις (Crotoniate (female citizen)) [people], Κροτώνιος (Crotonian (inhabitant/adjective)) [people], Κροτωνία (Crotonia (female form/demonym)) [people], Κροτωνιάς (Crotonias (alternate demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: And it is (also) used/says when it denotes the city or the mountain.; Unclear Metalinguistic: From which the river Aēsaros flows.; Folk Etymology Narrative: But indeed the name is 'sharpened' (interpreted/intensified) with respect to the destructive/biting of the dogs.
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Κρότων, πόλις Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον. βαρύνεται δὲ ὅτε τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν ὀξύνεται. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις, Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις. καὶ τρίτη Ἰταλίας. οἱ πολῖται Κροτωνιᾶται καὶ θηλυκῶς Κροτωνιᾶτις, καὶ Κροτώνιος καὶ Κροτωνία καὶ Κροτωνιάτης καὶ Κροτωνιάς.

Kroton: a notable city of Italy, near Rhegion. It is accented with a grave (i.e. on the penult) when it denotes either the city or the mountain from which the river Aisaros flows; but the form used of the dog-destroying (herb/plant) is accented with an acute. There is also another city, metropolis of Tyrrhenia; and a third in Italy. The inhabitants are called Krotoniatai, and in the feminine Krotoniatis; also Krotonios and Krotonia, and (feminine forms) Krotoniatis and Krotonias.

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Herodian 1.36

char LCS 36 (13.5%) · word LCS 8 (16.3%)

Stephanos

Κρότων, πόλις Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον. βαρύνεται δὲ ὅτε τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν ὀξύνεται. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις, Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις. καὶ τρίτη Ἰταλίας. οἱ πολῖται Κροτωνιᾶται καὶ θηλυκῶς Κροτωνιᾶτις, καὶ Κροτώνιος καὶ Κροτωνία καὶ Κροτωνιάτης καὶ Κροτωνιάς.

Herodian

…ος καὶ Μυτιλήνης καὶ ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Μέτων, γείτων, τέκτων, Σπάρτων ὁ Φορωνέως, Βάτων ὁ Ἀμφιαράου ἡνίοχος. τὸ δὲ Κρότων, ὅτε τὸν κτιστὴν ἢ τὴν πόλιν—ἔστι δὲ Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον καὶ ἑτέρα Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις—ἢ τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει, ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, βαρύνεται, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν (Β 738) ὀξύνεται. καὶ τὸ χιτών τὸ ἱμάτιον ὀξύνεται πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ποταμοῦ. τὸ Ἀρίστων, Ἑκάτων, Χαρίτων, Μελίτων, ἀχίτων, χαλκοχίτων, ἀρχιτέκτων βαρύνο…