Aethiopia
See also: aethiopia
English edit
Proper noun edit
Aethiopia
- (historical) Alternative form of Ethiopia (“a broad region of eastern Africa”)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ae̯.tʰiˈo.pi.a/, [äe̯t̪ʰiˈɔpiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.tiˈo.pi.a/, [et̪iˈɔːpiä]
Proper noun edit
Aethiopia f sg (genitive Aethiopiae); first declension
- Ethiopia (a historical region in East Africa)
- (New Latin) Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Aethiopia |
Genitive | Aethiopiae |
Dative | Aethiopiae |
Accusative | Aethiopiam |
Ablative | Aethiopiā |
Vocative | Aethiopia |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Asturian: Etiopía
- → Catalan: Etiòpia
- → English: Ethiopia
- → Finnish: Etiopia
- French: Éthiopie
- Galician: Etiopía
- Italian: Etiopia
- → Latvian: Etiopija
- Norman: Êthiopie
- Portuguese: Etiópia
- Romanian: Etiopia
- Spanish: Etiopía
- → Tagalog: Etiyopiya
References edit
- “Aethiopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Aethiopia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.