Epirus

English

Epirus (periphery of Greece)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈpaɪəɹəs/

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／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
• Lithuanian: Epyras m, Epyro karalystė 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
• Lithuanian: Epyras m
• Mandarin: 伊庇魯斯／伊庇鲁斯 (zh), 伊庇鲁斯 (zh) (Yībìlǔsī), 伊庇魯斯大區／伊庇鲁斯大区, 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

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• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Alemannic German: ^{(please verify)} Epirus
• Asturian: Epiru
• Corsican: ^{(please verify)} Epiru
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} Epiro (gl) 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

• rise up, uprise

Czech

Proper noun

Epirus m inan

1. Epirus (a region of Greece)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

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, singular only.

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.