Echinades

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες (Ekhīnắdes, toponym).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Echīnadēs f pl (genitive Echīnadum); third declension

  1. Echinades (islands in the Ionian Sea)
    • c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 2.7.10:
      in Ionio Prote, ; in Epiro Echinades et olim Plotae nunc Strophades
      In the Ionian Sea, ; in Epirus, there are Echinades and formerly Plotae, now Strophades
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.87:
      Echinades insulae ab Acheloo amne congestae
      the islands Echinades formed by the river Achelous

Inflection

Third-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Echīnadēs
genitive Echīnadum
dative Echīnadibus
accusative Echīnadēs
ablative Echīnadibus
vocative Echīnadēs
locative Echīnadibus

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