Epirus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Epirus
- A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).
- (historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
- A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.
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Translations[edit]
region; historical kingdom
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one of the 13 peripheries
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See also[edit]
- Attica
- Central Greece
- Central Macedonia
- Crete
- East Macedonia and Thrace
- Ionian Islands
- North Aegean
- Peloponnese
- South Aegean
- Thessaly
- West Greece
- West Macedonia
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Epirus m
Dutch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch epirus, from Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Epirus n
- Epirus (region, historical kingdom and periphery in northwestern Greece)
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).
Proper noun[edit]
Ēpīrus f sg (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension
- Epirus (region and historical kingdom in modern Albania and Greece)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Ēpīrus |
Genitive | Ēpīrī |
Dative | Ēpīrō |
Accusative | Ēpīrum |
Ablative | Ēpīrō |
Vocative | Ēpīre |
References[edit]
- “Epirus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “Epeirus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Epirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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