Κύδνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κύδνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #249
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 390.8 | Billerbeck: Κ249
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 19
Sources: Θεαγένης (Theagenes) FGrHist 774 F 5 [Μακεδονικοῖς]
Entities: Πύδνα (Pydna) [place], Μακεδονία (Macedonia) [place], Πύδνα (Pydna) [place], Πυδναῖος (Pydnaean (ethnicon)) [people], Κύδνος (Kydnos (river)) [place], Κιλικία (Cilicia) [place]
Etymologies: 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.
Place: Kydna (Pauly-Wissowa)
Source: e9783110219630_i0776.jpg
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Κύδνα, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Θεαγένης ἐν Μακεδονικοῖς. ἣ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Πύδνα λέγεται. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυδναῖος. ἔστι καὶ Κύδνος ποταμὸς Κιλικίας.

Kydna, a city of Macedonia. Theagenes in his *Makedonika*. It is, through a corruption of the name, called Pydna. The ethnic adjective is Pydnaios. There is also the Kydnos, a river of Cilicia.

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