Larissa
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Larisa (the city; the female name)
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa
- A city in north-central Greece, the capital of Thessaly.
- 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
- Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
- A city in western Asia Minor, close to the ancient Greek city of Smyrna and to the contemporary Turkish city of Menemen.
- (Greek mythology) A nymph with a local cult near the city of Larissa.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek (after the mythological character and a 4th century Greek Orthodox martyr).
- (astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
Related terms edit
- female given name: Lara
Translations edit
city in Greece
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female given name
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Larissa in the 20th century.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa
- a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian Лари́са (Larísa) in the 20th century.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa
- a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
Proper noun edit
Larissa f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa
- Larissa (a city, the regional capital of Thessaly, Greece)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laːˈris.sa/, [ɫ̪äːˈrɪs̠ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈris.sa/, [läˈrisːä]
Proper noun edit
Lārissa f sg (genitive Lārissae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Lārissa |
Genitive | Lārissae |
Dative | Lārissae |
Accusative | Lārissam |
Ablative | Lārissā |
Vocative | Lārissa |
Locative | Lārissae |
References edit
- “Larissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Larissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa f
Turkish edit
Proper noun edit
Larissa