Epirus

English

Epirus (periphery of Greece)

Etymology

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨˈpaɪəɹəs/

Proper noun

Epirus

1. 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).
2. (historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
3. A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.

Derived terms

• Northern Epirus

Related terms

• Epirot / Epirote
• Epirotic
• Epirot Islands / Epirote Islands

Translations

region; historical kingdom

• Albanian: Epir
• Armenian: Էպիրոս (Ēpiros)
• Aromanian: Ipir m, Epir m
• Catalan: Epir m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊庇魯斯 (zh), 伊庇鲁斯 (zh) (Yībìlǔsī), 伊庇魯斯大區, 伊庇鲁斯大区 (Yībìlǔsī Dàqū)

• Danish: Epirus, Epiros
• Dutch: Epirus, Epiros
• Esperanto: Epiro
• Estonian: Ípeiros
• Finnish: Epeiros
• French: Épire (fr) m
• German: Epirus (de)
• Greek: Ήπειρος (el) f (Ípeiros)

  Ancient: Ἤπειρος f (Ḗpeiros)

• Hebrew: אפירוס‎ m (épiros)

• Icelandic: Epírus n
• Italian: Epiro m
• Japanese: イピロス (Ipirosu), エペイロス (Epeirosu), エピロス (Epirosu)
• Latin: Ēpīrus f, Ēpīros f
• Persian: اپیروس‎ (Epirus)
• Polish: Epir (pl) m
• Portuguese: Épiro m
• Russian: Эпир (ru) m (Epir)
• Slovene: Epír (sl) m
• Spanish: Epiro m
• Swedish: Epirus
• Tagalog: Epiro

one of the 13 peripheries

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Aromanian: Ipir
• Catalan: Epir m
• Czech: Epirus m
• Dutch: Epirus, Epiros
• Esperanto: Epiro
• Estonian: Ípeiros
• Finnish: Epeiros
• French: Épire (fr) m
• German: Epirus (de)
• Greek: Ήπειρος (el) f (Ípeiros)
• Hebrew: אפירוס‎ m (épiros)

• Italian: Epiro m
• Japanese: イピロス (Ipirosu), エピロス (Epirosu)
• Latin: Epirus
• Mandarin: 伊庇魯斯 (zh), 伊庇鲁斯 (zh) (Yībìlǔsī), 伊庇魯斯大區, 伊庇鲁斯大区 (Yībìlǔsī Dàqū)
• Polish: Epir (pl) m
• Portuguese: Épiro m
• Russian: Эпир (ru) m (Epir)
• Slovene: Epír (sl) m
• Spanish: Epiro m
• Tagalog: Epiro

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Asturian: Epiru
• Corsican: ^{(please verify)} Epiru
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Epiro m
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} Epiro (io)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} Epiro
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} Epirus

• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} Епир (Epir)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} Epiro m
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} Epiru
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Epir (sh)
• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} Epiru
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} Epir
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} Epiro m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Epirus

See also

• Attica
• Central Greece
• Central Macedonia
• Crete
• East Macedonia and Thrace
• Ionian Islands
• North Aegean
• Peloponnese
• South Aegean
• Thessaly
• West Greece
• West Macedonia

Anagrams

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Czech

Proper noun

Epirus m

1. Epirus (a region of Greece)

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Epiros

Etymology

From Middle Dutch epirus, from Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeːˈpiː.rʏs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Epi‧rus

Proper noun

Epirus n

1. Epirus (region, historical kingdom and periphery in northwestern Greece)

Derived terms

• Epiroot

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Ēpīros

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Proper noun

Ēpīrus f sg (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension

1. Epirus (region and historical kingdom in modern Albania and Greece)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ēpīrus
Genitive	Ēpīrī
Dative	Ēpīrō
Accusative	Ēpīrum
Ablative	Ēpīrō
Vocative	Ēpīre

References

• “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