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English
Proper noun
Cephallenia
- Alternative form of Cephalonia
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κεφαλληνία (Kephallēnía).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cephallēnia f sg (genitive Cephallēniae); first declension
- An island in the Ionian Sea, now Cephalonia
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Cephalenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cephallenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Cephallenia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly