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German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From New Latin Erythraea (“Eritrea”), itself a learned borrowing from Italian Eritrea, the latter of which was first used as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Proper noun
Erythräa
- Alternative form of Eritrea
1904, E. Dagobert Schoenfeld, Erythräa und der ägyptische Sudân:
1910, Auguste Forel, Ameisen aus der Kolonie Erythräa:
1930, Hermann Norden, Durch Abessinien und Erythräa:
1960, Ergebnisse der inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde, page 231:
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Erythräa
- Erythrae, Ionia
1826, Von der Stadt Gottes, page 566:Einige sind der Meinung, die Sybille Erythräa habe zu eben jener Zeit geweissagt [...]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)