Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ἅπειρος ‎(Hápeiros) (Doric)

Proper noun

Ἤπειρος • ‎(Ḗpeiros) f ‎(genitive Ἠπείρου); second declension

1. Epirus

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἠπειρώτης ‎(Ēpeirṓtēs)
• Ἠπειρωτικός ‎(Ēpeirōtikós)

Descendants

• Albanian: Epir, Epiri
• Bulgarian: Епир ‎(Epir)
• English: Epirus
• French: Épire, Epire
• German: Epirus
• Greek: Ήπειρος ‎(Ípeiros)
• Italian: Epiro
• Latin: Epirus
• Macedonian: Епир ‎(Epir)
• Romanian: Epir
• Russian: Эпир ‎(Epir)
• Serbo-Croatian: Епир/Epir
• Turkish: Epir

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄπειρος ‎(ápeiros) (Doric)
• ἄπερρος ‎(áperrhos) (Aeolic)

Noun

ἤπειρος • ‎(ḗpeiros) f ‎(genitive ἠπείρου); second declension

1. mainland, land
2. The mainland of Greece
3. continent
4. inland areas (as opposed to coastal areas)

Inflection

References

• ἤπειρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἤπειρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἤπειρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἤπειρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἤπειρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • continent idem, page 168.
  • Epirus idem, page 1009.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • mainland idem, page 508.
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ōf(e)ra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 394
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἤπειρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 523
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 136
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “āpero-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 53