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|Full diacritics=Σᾰμοθρᾴκη
|Medium diacritics=Σαμοθρᾴκη
|Low diacritics=Σαμοθράκη
|Capitals=ΣΑΜΟΘΡΑΚΗ
|Transliteration A=Samothrā́ikē
|Transliteration B=Samothrakē
|Transliteration C=Samothraki
|Beta Code=*samoqra/&#124;kh
|Definition=Ion. Σαμοθρηΐκη, ἡ, <span class="title">Samothrace</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.47</span>; the seat of the mysteries of the Cabeiri, <span class="bibl">Id.2.51</span>; called <b class="b3">Σάμος Θρηϊκίη</b> in Hom., <span class="bibl">Il.13.12</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>34</span>; and simply <b class="b3">Σάμος</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.24.78</span>,<span class="bibl">753</span>. Adj. Σᾰμόθρᾳξ (not <b class="b3">Σαμοθρᾴξ</b>), Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">1.42</span>, <span class="bibl">Choerob.<span class="title">in Theod.</span>1.187</span> H., etc.; Ion. pl. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> Σαμοθρήϊκες <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.51</span>, <span class="bibl">8.90</span>; also Σᾰμοθρᾴκιος, Ion. Σαμοθρηΐκιος, η, ον, <span class="bibl">Id.7.59</span>,<span class="bibl">108</span>.</span>
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|lstext='''Σᾰμοθρᾴκη''': Ἰωνικ. -θρηΐκη, ἡ, [[νῆσος]] πλησίον τῆς Θρᾴκης [[ἀξία]] λόγου ἐπὶ τῷ πρωΐμῳ πολιτισμῷ τῶν κατοίκων αὐτῆς, Ἡρόδ. 6. 47· ὑπῆρξε δὲ ἡ [[ἕδρα]] τῶν μυστηρίων τῶν Καβείρων, ὁ αὐτ. 2. 51· καλεῖται [[Σάμος]] Θρηϊκίη παρ’ Ὁμ., Ἰλ. Ν. 12, Ὕμν. εἰς Ἀπολλ. 34· καὶ [[ἁπλῶς]] [[Σάμος]], Ἰλ. Ω. 78, 753. - Παλαιότερον ἔτι [[ὄνομα]] αὐτῆς ἦν Λευκωσία, Ἀριστ. Ἀποσπ. 538· καὶ Δαρδανία. Παυσ. 7. 4, 3. Ὁ [[κάτοικος]] τῆς νήσου ἐκαλεῖτο Σᾰμόθρᾳξ (οὐχὶ Σαμοθρᾴξ), Χοιροβοσκ. 176. 4, Ἐτυμολ. Μέγ.· Ἰων. πληθ. Σαμοθρήϊκες, Ἡρόδ. 2. 51., 8. 90· ἐπίθετ. Σᾰμοθρᾴκιος, Ἰωνικ. -θρηΐκιος, η, ον, Ἡρόδ. 7. 59, 108· πρβλ. τὸ ἑπόμ. καὶ ἴδε [[Κάβειροι]].
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{{bailly
|btext=ης (ἡ) :<br />Samothrace, <i>île à l’embouchure de l’Hèbre</i>.<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[Σαμοθρᾴξ]].
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{{StrongGR
|strgr=from [[Σάμος]] and Thraike ([[Thrace]]); Samo-thrace ([[Samos]] of [[Thrace]]), an [[island]] in the [[Mediterranean]]: Samothracia.
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{{Thayer
|txtha=([[Σαμοθρᾴκη]] Rbez elz G (as [[here]] and [[there]] in [[secular]] authors; [[see]] Pape, Eigennamen, [[under]] the [[word]]); according to [[some]] '[[height]] of [[Thrace]]', according to others 'Thracian [[Samos]]' (cf. [[Σάμος]]); [[other]] opinions [[see]] in Pape, the [[passage]] cited), Σαμοθρακης, ἡ, [[Samothrace]], an [[island]] of the Aegean Sea, [[about]] 38 miles [[distant]] from the [[coast]] of [[Thrace]] [[where]] the [[river]] [[Hebrus]] empties [[into]] the [[sea]] (Pliny, h. n. 4,12 (23)) ([[now]] Samothraki): Acts 16:11.
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