Eritrea
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
- Rhymes: -eɪə
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
editEritrea
- A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
- The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
- (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
- (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.
Hypernyms
editDerived terms
edit- Eritrean (adjective/noun)
Translations
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See also
edit- Asmara
- Countries of the world
- Italian Eritrea
- (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea; capital: Asmara)
Derived terms
editBreton
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Catalan
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾiˈtɾe.ə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾiˈtɾe.a]
Audio (Valencia): (file)
Proper noun
editEritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
editCentral Huasteca Nahuatl
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Central Nahuatl
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Czech
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea f (related adjective eritrejský, demonym Eritrejec)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
editFurther reading
editDanish
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea n
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Eritrea on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
editInflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Eritrea | — | |
genitive | Eritrean | — | |
partitive | Eritreaa | — | |
illative | Eritreaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Eritrea | — | |
accusative | nom. | Eritrea | — |
gen. | Eritrean | ||
genitive | Eritrean | — | |
partitive | Eritreaa | — | |
inessive | Eritreassa | — | |
elative | Eritreasta | — | |
illative | Eritreaan | — | |
adessive | Eritrealla | — | |
ablative | Eritrealta | — | |
allative | Eritrealle | — | |
essive | Eritreana | — | |
translative | Eritreaksi | — | |
abessive | Eritreatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
editGalician
editProper noun
editEritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
editGerman
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Derived terms
editSee also
edit- (countries of Africa) Staaten Afrikas; Ägypten, Algerien, Angola, Äquatorialguinea, Äthiopien, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Dschibuti, Elfenbeinküste, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kamerun, Kap Verde, Kenia, Komoren, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyen, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Marokko, Mauretanien, Mauritius, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sambia, São Tomé und Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Südafrika, Sudan, Südsudan, Tansania, Togo, Tschad, Tunesien, Uganda, Zentralafrikanische Republik (Category: de:Countries in Africa)
Hungarian
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
editInflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Eritrea | — |
accusative | Eritreát | — |
dative | Eritreának | — |
instrumental | Eritreával | — |
causal-final | Eritreáért | — |
translative | Eritreává | — |
terminative | Eritreáig | — |
essive-formal | Eritreaként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Eritreában | — |
superessive | Eritreán | — |
adessive | Eritreánál | — |
illative | Eritreába | — |
sublative | Eritreára | — |
allative | Eritreához | — |
elative | Eritreából | — |
delative | Eritreáról | — |
ablative | Eritreától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Eritreáé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Eritreáéi | — |
Possessive forms of Eritrea | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Eritreám | — |
2nd person sing. | Eritreád | — |
3rd person sing. | Eritreája | — |
1st person plural | Eritreánk | — |
2nd person plural | Eritreátok | — |
3rd person plural | Eritreájuk | — |
Related terms
editInterlingua
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Italian
editEtymology
editFirst used as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editl'Eritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا (ʔirītriyā)
- → English: Eritrea
- → French: Érythrée, Erythrée (semantic loan)
- → German: Eritrea
- → New Latin: Erythraea (“Eritrea”) (learned)
- → German: Erythräa
Anagrams
editNorwegian Bokmål
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
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editSpanish
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
editSwahili
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editEritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
See also
edit- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Swedish
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editEritrea n (genitive Eritreas)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
edit- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪə
- Rhymes:English/eɪə/3 syllables
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Eritrea
- en:Countries in Africa
- en:Countries
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Historical political subdivisions
- en:Places in Ethiopia
- en:Historical dependent territories
- en:Places in Italy
- Afrikaans terms with audio links
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans proper nouns
- af:Eritrea
- af:Countries in Africa
- af:Countries
- Breton lemmas
- Breton proper nouns
- br:Eritrea
- br:Countries in Africa
- br:Countries
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Eritrea
- ca:Countries in Africa
- ca:Countries
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl proper nouns
- nch:Eritrea
- nch:Countries in Africa
- nch:Countries
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Nahuatl proper nouns
- nhn:Eritrea
- nhn:Countries in Africa
- nhn:Countries
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio links
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- cs:Eritrea
- cs:Countries in Africa
- cs:Countries
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech feminine nouns in -ea
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Eritrea
- da:Countries in Africa
- da:Countries
- Dutch terms borrowed from Italian
- Dutch terms derived from Italian
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːaː
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Eritrea
- nl:Countries in Africa
- nl:Countries
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/eɑ/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Eritrea
- fi:Countries in Africa
- fi:Countries
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Galician lemmas
- Galician proper nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Eritrea
- gl:Countries in Africa
- gl:Countries
- German terms borrowed from Italian
- German terms derived from Italian
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms derived from Ancient Greek
- German 4-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Eritrea
- de:Countries in Africa
- de:Countries
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ/4 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Eritrea
- hu:Countries in Africa
- hu:Countries
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua proper nouns
- ia:Eritrea
- ia:Countries in Africa
- ia:Countries
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛa
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛa/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Eritrea
- it:Countries in Africa
- it:Countries
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Eritrea
- nb:Countries in Africa
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Eritrea
- nn:Countries in Africa
- nn:Countries
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/ea
- Rhymes:Spanish/ea/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Eritrea
- es:Countries in Africa
- es:Countries
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili proper nouns
- sw:Eritrea
- sw:Countries in Africa
- sw:Countries
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Eritrea
- sv:Countries in Africa
- sv:Countries