Epir

See also: epir

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• Epiru

Proper noun

Epir m

1. Alternative form of Ipir: Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Derived terms

• epirot

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Epirus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈpir]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eˈpir]

Proper noun

Epir m

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Derived terms

• epirota

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛpɪr]

Proper noun

Epir m inan

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Declension

Declension of Epir (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Epir	Epiry
genitive	Epiru	Epirů
dative	Epiru	Epirům
accusative	Epir	Epiry
vocative	Epire	Epiry
locative	Epiru	Epirech
instrumental	Epirem	Epiry

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Ēpīrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.pir/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛpir
• Syllabification: E‧pir

Proper noun

Epir m inan (related adjective epirski or epirocki)

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Declension

Declension of Epir

	singular
nominative	Epir
genitive	Epiru
dative	Epirowi
accusative	Epir
instrumental	Epirem
locative	Epirze
vocative	Epirze

Further reading

• Epir in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Epir in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ěpiːr/
• Hyphenation: E‧pir

Proper noun

Èpīr m (Cyrillic spelling Ѐпӣр)

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Declension

Declension of Epir

	singular
nominative	Èpīr
genitive	Epíra
dative	Epiru
accusative	Epira
vocative	Epire
locative	Epiru
instrumental	Epirom

References

• “Epir”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpir/

Proper noun

Epir m inan

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛpíːr/

Proper noun

Epȋr m inan

1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Epír
genitive	Epíra
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Epír
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Epíra
dative (dajȃlnik)	Epíru
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Epír
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Epíru
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Epírom

Related terms

• Epírec / Epírka
• epírski