Etleva

Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Etleva, an Illyrian name.

Proper noun

Etleva f

1. a female given name from Illyrian

Declension

Declension of Etlevë

	indefinite	definite
nominative	Etlevë	Etleva
accusative		Etlevën
dat./abl.	Etleve	Etlevës

Related terms

• Etliv

 

References

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 28b
• Kostallari, Androkli et al., editors (1982), “Etlev/ë,-a”, in Fjalor me emra njerëzish (in Albanian), Tirana: 8 Nëntori, page 181

Latin

Alternative forms

• Etuta, Etleuta

Etymology

Borrowed from Illyrian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈet.le.u̯a/, [ˈɛt̪ɫ̪eu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈet.le.va/, [ˈɛt̪levä]

Proper noun

Etleva f sg (genitive Etlevae); first declension

1. a female given name, the wife of Gentius, an Illyrian king
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 44.32.3:

     qui Meteonem, Labeatium gentis urbem, profectus Etlevam uxorem cum filiis duobus, Scerdilaedo Pleuratoque, et Caravantium fratrem Scodram in castra adduxit.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Etleva
Genitive	Etlevae
Dative	Etlevae
Accusative	Etlevam
Ablative	Etlevā
Vocative	Etleva

Descendants

• → Albanian: Etleva

References

• Fraser, P. M., Matthews, E., editors (1997), “Ἔτλευα”, in The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, volume III.A. The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, Magna Graecia, Oxford University Press
• “Etleva”, in Pauly–Wissowa (in German), volume S III, 1918, column 443