Κυπαρισσία - Stephanos Ethnika

Κυπαρισσία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κυπαρισσία, πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας, ἥ τις Ἔραννα ἐκαλεῖτο. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυπαρισσεύς καὶ Κυπαρισσία ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ.

Kyparissia: a city in Triphylia, which used to be called Eranna. The ethnonym is 'Kyparisseus', and Kyparissia is also an epithet of Athena.

Text Details

Entry	#278
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 395.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	14
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κυπαρισσία	Kyparissia (Cyparissia) · place · corrected · Q59218037
Τριφυλία	Triphylia · place · corrected · Q472032
Ἔραννα	Eranna · place
Κυπαρισσεύς	Kyparisseus (demonym) · people
Ἀθηνᾶ	Athena · deity · corrected · Q37122
Kyparissia in Triphylia	place · city · Triphylia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	which was called Eranna.
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) is Κυπαρισσεύς, and Athena (bore) the name Κυπαρισσία.

Links

Place links	Kyparissia (ancient Laconia) \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0858.jpg
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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 · 2 scan rows · 3 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 · 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	Y (EPITHET) + X (DEITY) formula:e59d8efd6da15c82	Translate as "X Y" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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

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

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