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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πύρρα (Púrrha).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pyrrha
- (Greek mythology) The wife of Deucalion.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πύρρα (Púrrha).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pyrrha f sg (genitive Pyrrhae); first declension
- (Greek mythology) wife of Deucalion
- A town in the island of Lesbos, in modern Greece
- A promontory in Thessaly, in modern Greece
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Pyrrha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pyrrha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Pyrrha”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly