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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεδιάς (pediás, plain, noun, adjective) + accusative suffix -άδα (-áda),[1] from πεδίον (pedíon, open country, field, plain) +‎ -ιάς (-iás).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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πεδιάδα (pediádaf (plural πεδιάδες)

  1. (geography) plain (large, flat lands)

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References

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  1. ^ πεδιάδα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πέδον (> DER > 1. πεδιάς)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1160-1

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