Λυχνιδός - Stephanos Ethnika

Λυχνιδός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Λυχνιδός, πόλις Ἰλλυρίας ἀρσενικῶς λεγομένη καὶ λίμνη θηλυκῶς. Ἡρωδιανὸς Λυχνιτὸν αὐτόν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυχνίδιος καὶ Λυχνιδία λίμνη. καὶ Λυχνίτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἀρμενίας Λυχνῖτις χώρα.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#116
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 423.14 · Billerbeck Λ116
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	26

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρωδιανός (Herodian (the author))	(2,547,16)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λυχνιδός	Lychnidos · place · corrected · Q380826
Ἰλλυρία	Illyria · place · corrected · Q32047
Λυχνιτός	Lychnitos (variant of Lychnidos) · place
Λυχνίδιος	Lychnidios (ethnic name) · people
Λυχνιδία	Lychnidia (lake) · place
Λυχνίτης	Lychnites (inhabitant/ethnic) · people
Ἀρμενία	Armenia · place · corrected · Q1423867
Λυχνῖτις	Lychnitis (region in Armenia) · place
Lychnidos (city of Illyria)	place · city · Illyria · explicit · wikidata: Q1456371 · candidate
Lychnidia (lake)	place · lake · Illyria · explicit · unresolved
Lychnitis (district in Armenia)	place · district · Armenia · explicit · wikidata: Q181932 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	A city of Illyria called (grammatically) masculine, and the lake (called) feminine.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Herodian calls it 'Lychniton'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (adjective) 'Lychnidios' and 'Lychnidia' (for the lake); and 'Lychnites'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also a region in Armenia called 'Lychnitis'.

Links

Place links	Lychnidos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1200.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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.