Ephesus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos, “Ephesus”) via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Ephesus.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Ephesus

1. A city of ancient Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.

Derived terms

• Ephesian
• Ephesians

Translations

ancient city

• Afrikaans: Efese
• Arabic: أَفَسُس (ʔafasus)
• Armenian: Եփեսոս (Epʻesos)

  Old Armenian: Եփեսոս (Epʻesos)

• Azerbaijani: Efes
• Basque: Efeso
• Belarusian: Эфе́с m (Efjés)
• Breton: Efesos m
• Bulgarian: Ефес m (Efes)
• Catalan: Efes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 以弗所 (zh) (yifusuo)

• Czech: Efez m
• Danish: Efesos
• Dutch: Efeze (nl) m
• Esperanto: Efeso
• Extremaduran: Éfesu
• Faroese: Efesus m
• Finnish: Efesos (fi)
• French: Éphèse (fr) m
• Galician: Éfeso m
• Georgian: ეფესო (epeso)
• German: Ephesus (de)
• Greek: Έφεσος (el) m (Éfesos)

  Ancient: Ἔφεσος f (Éphesos)

• Hebrew: אפסוס m (apsws)
• Hungarian: Epheszosz
• Icelandic: Efesos m
• Indonesian: Ephesos
• Irish: Eifeasas m
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• Italian: Efeso (it)
• Japanese: エフェソス (Efesosu)
• Javanese: Efesus
• Korean: 에페소스 (Epesoseu)
• Latin: Ephesus f
• Macedonian: Ефес m (Efes)
• Malay: Efesus
• Marathi: इफेसूस m (iphesūs)
• Norwegian: Efesos m
• Old English: Ephese m
• Ottoman Turkish: أفس
• Persian: افسس (afss)
• Polish: Efez (pl)
• Portuguese: Éfeso m
• Romanian: Efes m
• Russian: Ефе́с (ru) m (Jefés), Эфе́с (ru) m (Efés)
• Saterland Frisian: Ephesos
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ѐфез m

  Roman: Efes, Èfez (sh)

• Sicilian: Èfesu m (Efés)
• Slovak: Efez
• Spanish: Éfeso
• Swahili: Efeso
• Swedish: Efesos
• Tagalog: Epeso
• Tamil: எபேசஸ் (epēcas)
• Turkish: Efes
• Welsh: Effesus m

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pʰe.sus/, [ˈɛpʰɛs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.fe.sus/, [ˈɛːfes̬us]

Proper noun

Ephesus f sg (genitive Ephesī); second declension

1. Ephesus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ephesus
Genitive	Ephesī
Dative	Ephesō
Accusative	Ephesum
Ablative	Ephesō
Vocative	Ephese
Locative	Ephesī

References

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