Eretria

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρῐᾰ (Erétrĭă, literally “city of the rowers”), from ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”) + -τρῐᾰ (-trĭă). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɹiːtɹiə/ === Proper noun === Eretria (historical) A town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important polis in the 6th/5th century BC. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Eritrea, tearier == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin Eretria, from Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρια (Erétria). === Proper noun === Eretria f (historical) Eretria (a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf) == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρια (Erétria). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈrɛ.tri.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈrɛː.tri.a] === Proper noun === Eretria f sg (genitive Eretriae); first declension (historical) Eretria (a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== Eretrius Eretriensis Eretricus ==== Descendants ==== French: Érétrie Italian: Eretria === References === “Eretria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Eretria”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Eretria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly