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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱ (Adríā, “Adria”) + -ᾱς (-ās).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.drí.aːs/ → /aˈðri.as/ → /aˈðri.as/
Proper noun
Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ᾱς • (Adríās) m (genitive Ᾰ̓δρῐ́ου); first declension
- Adriatic Sea
445 BCE – 380 BCE,
Lysias,
Against Diogeiton 25:
- καὶ ἀποπέμψας εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν ὁλκάδα δυοῖν ταλάντοιν, (...)
- kaì apopémpsas eis tòn Adrían holkáda duoîn talántoin, (...)
- Again, when he had dispatched a merchant vessel with two talents' worth onto the Adriatic Sea, (...)
Declension
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Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἀδρίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἀδρίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἀδρίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G99 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 999
- Ἀδρίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Ἀδρίας”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011