Κύδνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κύδνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κύδνα, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Θεαγένης ἐν Μακεδονικοῖς. ἣ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Πύδνα λέγεται. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυδναῖος. ἔστι καὶ Κύδνος ποταμὸς Κιλικίας.

Kydna: a city in Macedonia. Theagenes, in his Makedonika. Through corruption it is called Pydna. The ethnonym is 'Pydnaios'. There is also Kydnos, a river in Kilikia.

AI translation — gpt-5.5; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#249
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 390.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	19
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεαγένης (Theagenes)	Μακεδονικοῖς · FGrHist 774 F 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Πύδνα	Pydna · place · corrected · Q639126
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Πύδνα	Pydna · place · corrected · Q639126
Πυδναῖος	Pydnaean (ethnicon) · people
Κύδνος	Kydnos (river) · place · corrected · Q1768771
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place · corrected · Q620864
Κύδνα / Πύδνα (Macedonian city)	place · city · Macedonia · explicit · unresolved
Κύδνος (river of Cilicia)	place · river · Cilicia · explicit · wikidata: Q1768771 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	Or, by paraphora (a phonetic/formal alteration), it is called Pydna.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is Pydnaios.
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also the river Kydnos in Cilicia.

Links

Place links	Archaia Pydna \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0776.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 (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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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.