Caucasus
English edit
Etymology edit
Via Latin Caucasus, from Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Caucasus
- A mountain range in Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, on territory of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which includes the ranges of Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus.
- 1851, Lieutenant Maturin Murray, The Circassian Slave, or The Sultan's Favorite:
- […] from the long and rugged ravines of the Caucasus, […]
- 1887, Walter Savage Landor, Gebir:
- Driven with that weak blast which Winter leaves, / Closing his palace gates on Caucasus, / […]
- 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King In Yellow:
- Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one.
- (geopolitical) A geopolitical region in Eastern Europe, deriving its name from the aforementioned mountains.
Usage notes edit
Usually referred to as the Caucasus, but not always (see quot. 1887)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
a mountain range
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geographic region
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.ka.sus/, [ˈkäu̯käs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.ka.sus/, [ˈkäːu̯käs̬us]
Proper noun edit
Caucasus m sg (genitive Caucasī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Caucasus |
Genitive | Caucasī |
Dative | Caucasō |
Accusative | Caucasum |
Ablative | Caucasō |
Vocative | Caucase |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: Caucas
- French: Caucase
- Galician: Cáucaso
- Italian: Caucaso
- Occitan: Caucàs
- Portuguese: Cáucaso
- Romanian: Caucaz
- Spanish: Cáucaso
- → Basque: Kaukaso
- → Arabic: اَلْقَوْقَاز (al-qawqāz)
- → Danish: Kaukasus (learned)
- → Dutch: Kaukasus (learned)
- → English: Caucasus (learned)
- → Finnish: Kaukasus (learned)
- → German: Kaukasus (learned)
- → Hungarian: Kaukázus (learned)
- → Russian: Кавказ (Kavkaz) (see there for further descendants)