Aethiopia

See also: Æthiopia and aethiopia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Aethiopia.

Proper noun

Aethiopia

1. (historical) Alternative spelling of Ethiopia (“a broad region of eastern Africa”).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯.tʰiˈɔ.pi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.tiˈɔː.pi.a]

Proper noun

Aethiopia f sg (genitive Aethiopiae); first declension

1. Ethiopia (a historical region of East Africa)
2. (New Latin) Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)
3. Sub-Saharan Africa

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aethiopia
genitive	Aethiopiae
dative	Aethiopiae
accusative	Aethiopiam
ablative	Aethiopiā
vocative	Aethiopia

Related terms

• aethiopicus
• aethiopus
• aethiopius
• Aethiopissa
• Aethiops

Descendants

• Asturian: Etiopía
• → Catalan: Etiòpia
• → English: Ethiopia
  • → Gujarati: ઇથિયોપિયા (ithiyopiyā)
  • → Hindi: इथियोपिया (ithiyopiyā)
  • → Korean: 에티오피아 (etiopia)
  • → Navajo: Iithiyópya
  • → Urdu: ایتھوپیا (ethopyā)
  • → Yoruba: Ìtíópíà
• → Finnish: Etiopia
• French: Éthiopie
  • → Khmer: អេត្យូពី (ʼeetyoupii)
  • → Lao: ເອທິໂອປີ (ʼē thi ʼō pī)
  • → Persian: اتیوپی (etyupi)
• Galician: Etiopía
• Italian: Etiopia
• → Latvian: Etiopija
• Norman: Êthiopie
• Portuguese: Etiópia
• Romanian: Etiopia
• Spanish: Etiopía
  • → Tagalog: Etiyopiya

References

• “Aethiopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Aethiopia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.