Phrygia

English

Ancient Near East map featuring Phrygia

Etymology

From Latin Phrygia, from Ancient Greek Φρυγία (Phrugía).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.i.ə/

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Proper noun

Phrygia

2. (historical) A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey.

Derived terms

• Phrygian
• Phrygian cap
• Phrygian cadence

Translations

ancient kingdom

• Armenian: Փռյուգիա (Pʻṙyugia)

  Old Armenian: Փռիւգիա (Pʻṙiwgia)

• Azerbaijani: Friqiya
• Bulgarian: Фригия f (Frigija)
• Catalan: Frígia f
• Danish: Frygien
• Dutch: Frygië f
• French: Phrygie (fr) f
• Galician: Frixia f
• German: Phrygien (de) n
• Greek: Φρυγία (el) (Frygía)

  Ancient Greek: Φρυγία (Phrugía)

• Hindi: फ़्रीजिया (frījiyā), फ़्रिजिया (frijiyā)
• Irish: an Fhrigia f
• Italian: Frigia f
• Latin: Phrygia f
• Lithuanian: Frigija f, Frygija f
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᡵᡳᡤᡳᠶᠠ (furigiya)
• Marathi: फ्रिजिया n (phrijiyā)
• Parthian: 𐭐𐭓𐭅𐭊𐭀𐭉𐭀 (frūgiyā)
• Persian: فریجیه (fa) (farijiyye)
• Polish: Frygia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Frígia (pt) f
• Romanian: Frigia f
• Russian: Фри́гия (ru) f (Frígija)
• Spanish: Frigia f
• Swedish: Frygien n
• Turkish: Frigya (tr)
• Volapük: Frügän (vo)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φρυγία (Phrugía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰry.ɡi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfriː.d͡ʒi.a]

Proper noun

Phrygia f sg (genitive Phrygiae); first declension

1. (historical) Phrygia (a geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey)
2. (poetic) Troy

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Phrygia
genitive	Phrygiae
dative	Phrygiae
accusative	Phrygiam
ablative	Phrygiā
vocative	Phrygia
locative	Phrygiae

Descendants

• Catalan: Frígia
• Galician: Frixia
• Italian: Frigia
• Portuguese: Frígia
• Spanish: Frigia

References

• “Phrygia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.