English

Epirus (periphery of Greece)

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.

Related terms

• Epirot / Epirote
• Epirotic
• Epirot Islands / Epirote Islands

Derived terms

• Northern Epirus

Translations

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

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Czech

Proper noun

Epirus m

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Epiros

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Epirus ?

1. Epirus (all senses)

Derived terms

• Epiroot m

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ēpīros

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.

References

• Epirus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Epirus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.