Κύρη - Stephanos Ethnika

Κύρη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Κύρη, νῆσος ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ πόντῳ. Ἑκαταῖος ἐν περιηγήσεως δευτέρῳ. ὁ νησιώτης Κυραῖος ὡς Ἀσκραῖος.

Kyre: an island in the Persian Gulf. Hekataios in book 2 of his Periodos. The islander is a 'Kyraios'.

Entry	#287
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 396.15 · Billerbeck Κ287
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	15
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσεως β · FGrHist 1 F 281

Entity	Details
Κύρη	Kyre (island) · place
Περσικός Πόντος	Persian (Sea)/Persian Gulf · place
Κυραῖος	Kyraean (inhabitant of Kýre) · people
Ἀσκραῖος	Askraean (inhabitant of Askra) · people

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The islander is called 'Kyraios' in the same way as 'Askraios' (i.e. the demonym is formed analogously).

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