Λυχνιδός

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city

Entry #116
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 423.14 | Billerbeck: Λ116
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 26
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἡρωδιανός (Herodian (the author)) (2,547,16)
Entities: Λυχνιδός (Lychnidos) [place], Ἰλλυρία (Illyria) [place], Λυχνιτός (Lychnitos (variant of Lychnidos)) [place], Λυχνίδιος (Lychnidios (ethnic name)) [people], Λυχνιδία (Lychnidia (lake)) [place], Λυχνίτης (Lychnites (inhabitant/ethnic)) [people], Ἀρμενία (Armenia) [place], Λυχνῖτις (Lychnitis (region in Armenia)) [place]
Etymologies: 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'.
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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.

Lychnidós: a city of Illyria, so called in the masculine, and (also) a lake (so called) in the feminine. Herodian says that it is Lychnitón. The ethnicon is Lychnídios, and (there is) the lake Lychnidía; also Lychnítēs. There is also in Armenia a region (called) Lychnîtis.

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