Echinades
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες (Ekhīnádes, toponym).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈkʰiː.na.deːs/, [ɛˈkʰiːnäd̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈki.na.des/, [eˈkiːnäd̪es]
Proper noun edit
Echīnadēs f pl (genitive Echīnadum); third declension
- Echinades (islands in the Ionian Sea)
- c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 2.7.10:
- in Ionio Prote, […]; in Epiro Echinades et olim Plotae nunc Strophades
- In the Ionian Sea, […]; in Epirus, there are Echinades and formerly Plotae, now Strophades
- in Ionio Prote, […]; in Epiro Echinades et olim Plotae nunc Strophades
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.87:
- Echinades insulae ab Acheloo amne congestae
- the islands Echinades formed by the river Achelous
- Echinades insulae ab Acheloo amne congestae
Inflection edit
Third-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | Echīnadēs |
Genitive | Echīnadum |
Dative | Echīnadibus |
Accusative | Echīnadēs |
Ablative | Echīnadibus |
Vocative | Echīnadēs |
Locative | Echīnadibus |
Related terms edit
References edit
- “Echinades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press