Epirus

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈpaɪəɹəs/

Epirus

1. A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).
2. (historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
3. A region in northwest Greece; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.

• Northern Epirus

• Epirot / Epirote
• Epirotic
• Epirot Islands / Epirote Islands

• Attica
• Central Greece
• Central Macedonia
• Crete
• East Macedonia and Thrace
• Ionian Islands
• North Aegean
• Peloponnese
• South Aegean
• Thessaly
• West Greece
• West Macedonia

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Epirus m inan

1. Epirus (a region of Greece)

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• Epiros

From Middle Dutch epirus, from Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

• IPA^(key): /ˌeːˈpiː.rʏs/

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• Hyphenation: Epi‧rus

Epirus n

1. Epirus (region, historical kingdom and periphery in northwestern Greece)

• Epiroot

• Ēpīros

From Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros).

Ēpīrus f sg (genitive Ēpīrī); second declension

1. Epirus (region and historical kingdom in modern Albania and Greece)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Epirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Epeirus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Epirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.