Epirus
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEpirus
- A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).
- (historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
- A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editregion; historical kingdom
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one of the 13 peripheries
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See also
edit- Attica
- Central Greece
- Central Macedonia
- Crete
- East Macedonia and Thrace
- Ionian Islands
- North Aegean
- Peloponnese
- South Aegean
- Thessaly
- West Greece
- West Macedonia
Anagrams
editCzech
editProper noun
editEpirus m inan
Declension
editThis proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
Dutch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch epirus, from Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEpirus n
- Epirus (region, historical kingdom and periphery in northwestern Greece)
Derived terms
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).
Proper noun
editĒpīrus f sg (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension
- Epirus (region and historical kingdom in modern Albania and Greece)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Ēpīrus |
genitive | Ēpīrī |
dative | Ēpīrō |
accusative | Ēpīrum |
ablative | Ēpīrō |
vocative | Ēpīre |
References
edit- “Epirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Epeirus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Epirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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