Λιμναία - Stephanos Ethnika

Λιμναία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

Λιμναία, κώμη τοῦ Ἄργους. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λιμναῖος. Θουκυδίδης δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ν » τὴν δευτέραν συλλαβήν.

Limnaia: a village of Argos. The ethnonym Limnaios. But Thucydides the second syllable with 'n'.

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	#69
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 417.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(2,80,8)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λιμναία	Limnaea (Limnaia) · place · corrected · Q11931948
Ἄργος	Argos · place · corrected · Q13533353
Λιμναῖος	Limnaean (inhabitant of Limnaia) · people
Λιμναία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q11931948 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'Limnaia: a village of Argos. The ethnicon is Limnaios. Thucydides (2.80.8), however, uses a nu in the second syllable.'

Links

Place links	Limnaia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1141.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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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	διὰ τοῦ + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF γράφειν] formula:93bec21ca1d8a38f	Translate as "writes/write/wrote/is written with X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY 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	κώμη ἡ gloss:e14972622087326b	village Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	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.