Σίφνος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σίφνος, περὶ τὴν Κρήτην νῆσος, ἀπὸ Σίφνου τοῦ Σουνίου, ὡς Νικόλαος πέμπτῳ. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Μερόπη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σίφνιος. καὶ Σίφνιον ποτήριον καὶ σιφνιάζειν.

Siphnos: Siphnos, an island around Crete, from Siphnos son of Sounios, as Nicolaus in the fifth book. It was previously called Merope. The ethnonym 'Siphnios'. And a 'Siphnian' cup, and 'to siphnianize'.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#190
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 573.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-21
Word count	24

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.174

char LCS 59 (45.4%) · word LCS 12 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Σίφνος, περὶ τὴν Κρήτην νῆσος, ἀπὸ Σίφνου τοῦ Σουνίου, ὡς Νικόλαος πέμπτῳ. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Μερόπη· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σίφνιος. καὶ Σίφνιον ποτήριον καὶ σιφνιάζειν.

Herodian

τῶν Κυκλάδων, Πέφνος πόλις Λακωνική. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ νῆσον αὐτήν φησι· λέγεται δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. ὕπνος. Σίφνος περὶ τὴν Κρήτην νῆσος ἀπὸ Σίφνου τοῦ Σουνίου, ὡς Νικόλαος πέμπτῳ. Ἴπνος, ἣν Ἰπνέαν τινές, Λοκρῶν τῶν Ὀζολῶν. τὸ δὲ προσηγορικὸν ἰπνός ὀξύνεται. Θῶκνος ἥρως. τὸ δὲ καπνός ὀξύνεται ὡς ἔχον τὸ 'α'. * Τὰ εἰς 'νος' λήγοντα μετ´ ἐπιπλοκῆς συμφώνου δισύλλαβα μονογενῆ ἔχοντα ἐν τῇ πρὸ τέλους…