Λύκτος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #106
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 422.5 | Billerbeck: Λ106
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 30
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Λύκτος (Lyttos (Lyttus)) [place], Κρήτη (Crete) [place], Λυκάων (Lycaon) [person], Λύττος (Lyttos (variant)) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Lykton, son of Lykaon (i.e., named after Lykton/Lykaon).; Morphological Composition: Some say it (is) Lytton because it lies in a lofty/elevated place; for they say 'λύττον' means 'upper' and 'high'.
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Λύκτος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος. ἔνιοι Λύττον αὐτὴν φασὶν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λύκτιος, καὶ θηλυκὸν Λυκτηίς.

Lyktos: a city of Crete, [so called] from Lyktos son of Lykaon. Some say it is Lytta, because it lies in an elevated place; for what is ‘up’ and ‘high’ they call lytton. The ethnic is Lyktios, and the feminine [form] Lykteis.

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char LCS 64 (44.8%) · word LCS 15 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Λύκτος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος. ἔνιοι Λύττον αὐτὴν φασὶν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λύκτιος, καὶ θηλυκὸν Λυκτηίς.

Herodian

…λαβα μονογενῆ ἀπὸ τῆς 'οι' διφθόγγου ἀρχόμενα βαρύνεσθαι, ὁπότε πρὸ τῆς 'ος' συλλαβῆς σύμφωνον ἢ σύμφωνα ὑπάρχει— καὶ τὸ ἄρκτος καὶ πέκτος ὁ πόκος καὶ τὸ κάκτος. καὶ Λύκτος πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος· ἔνιοι δὲ Λύττον αὐτήν φασιν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον