Epirus

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English

Epirus (periphery of Greece)
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Etymology

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Epirus

  1. 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).
  2. (historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
  3. A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.

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Czech

Proper noun

Epirus m inan

  1. Epirus (a region of Greece)

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Dutch

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch epirus, from Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌeːˈpiː.rʏs/
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  • Hyphenation: Epi‧rus

Proper noun

Epirus n

  1. Epirus (region, historical kingdom and periphery in northwestern Greece)

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Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Proper noun

Ēpīrus f sg (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension

  1. Epirus (region and historical kingdom in modern Albania and Greece)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Ēpīrus
Genitive Ēpīrī
Dative Ēpīrō
Accusative Ēpīrum
Ablative Ēpīrō
Vocative Ēpīre

References

  • “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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