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.

Derived terms
  • Northern Epirus

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Anagrams

Czech

Proper noun

Epirus m

  1. Epirus (one of the 13 peripheries of Greece)

Dutch

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Proper noun

Epirus ?

  1. Epirus (all senses)

Derived terms

Latin

Alternative forms

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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