Λυδία - Stephanos Ethnika

Λυδία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Entry #93
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 420.9 | Billerbeck: Λ93
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 12
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Λυδία (Lydia) [place], Ξάνθος (Xanthus) [place], Λυδός (Lydian (ethnic)) [people], Λυδαί (Lydai / the Lydians (ethnic)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Lydia: the country/region.; Unclear Metalinguistic: Xanthus (author) in his 'Lydiaca' (reference to Xanthus of Lydia).; Unclear Metalinguistic: the ethnicon (demonym) 'Lydos' and 'Lydae' (forms of the name for inhabitants).
Place: Lydia | 📍 Map
Source: e9783110219630_i1173.jpg
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Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Lydia: the χώρα (region/country). Xanthos in book 1 of the Lydiaka. The ethnic (gentilic) is Lydos, and (in the feminine plural) Lydai.

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char LCS 31 (58.5%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Herodian

…λέγεται καὶ Κανθήλη. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Κανταβρία χώρα. Στράβων τρίτῃ. Καρπηΐα· οὕτως τινὲς Κάλπην πόλιν Βιθυνίας φασίν. Κεκροπία χώρα. Κορησσία πολίχνιον τῆς Κέω καὶ ἐπίνειον. Κωρυκία ἀκρωτήριον Κρήτης καὶ λιμὴν Αἰθιοπίας. Λυδία ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. Λυκία ἡ χώρα ἀπὸ Λύκου τοῦ Πανδίονος· ἔστι καὶ Λυκία ἡ πρὸς Κιλικίαν, ἧς ἦρχε Σαρπηδών. Λυρνατία