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 partly in southern 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. One of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.

Related terms

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

Derived terms

• Northern Epirus

Translations

region; historical kingdom

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: Էպիրոս (Ēpiros)
• Catalan: Epir m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊庇魯斯, 伊庇鲁斯 (Yībìlŭsī), 伊庇魯斯大區, 伊庇鲁斯大区 (Yībìlŭsī 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)

• 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
• Polish: Epir m
• Portuguese: Épiro m
• Russian: Эпир (ru) m (Epir)
• Slovene: Epír (sl) m
• Tagalog: Epiro

one of the 13 peripheries

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• 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)

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

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• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Asturian: Epiru
• Corsican: ^{(please verify)} Epiru
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Epiro m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אפירוס‏‎ (Epirus)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Epírus m
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} Epiro (io)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} Epiro
• Interlingue: ^{(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 (one of the 13 peripheries of Greece)

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• Epiros

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Epirus ?

1. Epirus (all senses)

Derived terms

• Epiroot m

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Ēpīros

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Proper noun

Ēpīrus f (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension

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

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Ēpīrus
genitive	Ēpīrī
dative	Ēpīrō
accusative	Ēpīrum
ablative	Ēpīrō
vocative	Ēpīre

References

• Epirus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)