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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πῡρηναῖος (Pūrēnaîos). By surface analysis, Pȳrēnē + -eus.
Pronunciation
Noun
Pȳrēnaeus (feminine Pȳrēnaea, neuter Pȳrēnaeum); first/second-declension adjective
- Pyrenean
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:
- Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet...
- Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “Pyrenaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Pyrenaeus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “Pyrenaeus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers