Λύγκος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #91
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 420.3 | Billerbeck: Λ91
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 22
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) ζ (7,7,8 [C 326,30])
Entities: Λύγκος (Lygkos) [place], Ἤπειρος (Epirus) [place], Λυγκεύς (Lygkeus) [person], Λυγκῆσται (Lygkestai (ethnic)) [people], Λυγκηστίς (Lygkestis (feminine ethnicon)) [people], Λύγκιος (Lygkios) [other], Λύττιος (Lyttios) [other], Λυγκεύς (Lygkeus) [person]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: It was called (named) after Lygkeus.; Unclear Metalinguistic: It is also said (to be) Lygkios, as (or like) Lyttios (a variant form).; Unclear Metalinguistic: It is also called Lygkeus (variant form).; Unclear Metalinguistic: The ethnic (demonym) is Lygkestai; the feminine form is Lygkestis.
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Λύγκος, πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυγκησταί. τὸ θηλυκὸν Λυγκηστίς. λέγεται καὶ Λύγκιος ὡς Λύττιος. λέγεται καὶ Λυγκεύς.

Lynkos: a city of Epirus. Strabo, book 7. It was named after Lynkeus. The ethnic name is Lynkēstai; the feminine is Lynkēstis. One also says Lynkios, as (one says) Lyttios. One also says Lynkeus.

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char LCS 47 (37.3%) · word LCS 8 (36.4%)

Stephanos

Λύγκος, πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυγκησταί. τὸ θηλυκὸν Λυγκηστίς. λέγεται καὶ Λύγκιος ὡς Λύττιος. λέγεται καὶ Λυγκεύς.

Herodian

Τὰ εἰς 'κος' δισύλλαβα κύρια, εἰ ἔχοι τὴν πρὸ τέλους συλλαβὴν εἰς σύμφωνον καταλήγουσαν, βαρύνεται, Μάκκος, Ὄγκος τὸ κύριον. Λύγκος πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. Φόρκος. Σύλκοι πόλις ἐν Σαρδοῖ, Καρχηδονίων κτίσμα. λέγεται καὶ Σόλκοι, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῇ «ἀπὸ δὲ Καράλεως ἐπὶ Σόλκους». Τὰ εἰς 'κος' δισύλλαβα προσηγορικὰ μὴ παρασχηματιζόμενα εἰς θηλυκὸν γένος, εἰ ἔχοι τὴν πρ…