Peloponnese

See also: Péloponnèse

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛləpəˈniːs/

Proper noun

Peloponnese

1. Peloponnesus, the peninsula forming the southern part of the mainland of Greece.
2. One of the 13 peripheries of Greece; it contains Achaea, Arcadia, Argolis, Corinthia, Elis, Laconia and Messenia. Known as Morea in medieval times.

Related terms

• Peloponnesian

Translations

region of Greece

• Afrikaans: Peloponnese
• Albanian: More, Peloponez
• Arabic: بِيلُوبُونِيز‎ m (bīlūbūnīz)
• Armenian: Պելոպոնես (Pelopones)
• Basque: Peloponeso
• Belarusian: Пелапанес m (Pjelapanjes)
• Bulgarian: Пелопонес m (Pelopones)
• Catalan: Peloponès m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伯罗奔尼撒 (zh) (Bóluóbēnnísā), 伯罗奔尼撒半岛 (Bóluóbēnnísā Bàndǎo)

• Czech: Peloponés (cs) m
• Danish: Peloponnes
• Dutch: Peloponnesos
• Esperanto: Peloponezo
• Estonian: Peloponnesos
• Finnish: Peloponnesos (fi)
• French: Péloponnèse (fr) m
• Georgian: პელოპონესი (ṗeloṗonesi)
• German: Peloponnes (de) m
• Greek: Πελοπόννησος (el) f (Pelopónnisos)

  Ancient Greek: Πελοπόννησος f (Pelopónnēsos)

• Hebrew: פלופונסוס‎ m (peluponisus)
• Hungarian: Peloponnészosz (hu)
• Italian: Peloponneso (it) m

• Japanese: ペロポネソス半島 (Peroponesosu-hantō)
• Korean: 펠로폰네소스 반도 (pelloponnesoseu bando)
• Latin: Peloponnēsus f
• Latvian: Peloponesa f
• Lithuanian: Peloponesas m
• Macedonian: Пелопонез m (Peloponez)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Peloponnes

  Nynorsk: Peloponnes

• Persian: پلوپونز‎
• Polish: Peloponez (pl) m
• Portuguese: Peloponeso m
• Romanian: Peloponez m
• Russian: Пелопонне́с (ru) m (Peloponnés)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пелопо̀не̄з m

  Roman: Pelopònēz (sh) m

• Sicilian: Pilupunnesu m, Pilupunnèsu m
• Slovak: Peloponéz m
• Slovene: Peloponez (sl) m
• Spanish: Peloponeso (es) m
• Swedish: Peloponnesos
• Turkish: Mora, Mora Yarımadası
• Ukrainian: Пелопонне́с m (Peloponnés)

See also

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

Further reading

• Peloponnese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Proper noun

Peloponnēse

1. vocative singular of Peloponnēsus