Σαμοθρᾴκη

English (LSJ)

Ion. Σαμοθρηΐκη, ἡ, Samothrace, Hdt.6.47; the seat of the mysteries of the Cabeiri, Id.2.51; called Σάμος Θρηϊκίη in Hom., Il.13.12, h.Ap.34; and simply Σάμος, Il.24.78,753. Adj. Σᾰμόθρᾳξ (not Σαμοθρᾴξ), Hdn.Gr.1.42, Choerob.in Theod.1.187 H., etc.; Ion. pl.

   A Σαμοθρήϊκες Hdt.2.51, 8.90; also Σᾰμοθρᾴκιος, Ion. Σαμοθρηΐκιος, η, ον, Id.7.59,108.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

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.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ης (ἡ) :
Samothrace, île à l’embouchure de l’Hèbre.
Étymologie: Σαμοθρᾴξ.

English (Strong)

from Σάμος and Thraike (Thrace); Samo-thrace (Samos of Thrace), an island in the Mediterranean: Samothracia.

English (Thayer)

(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.