English

Proper noun

Thermopylae

1. A narrow pass on the East-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

Translations

References

• Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• Fictional Portayals

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι ‎(Thermopúlai).

Proper noun

Thermopylae f pl ‎(genitive Thermopylārum); first declension

1. Thermopylae

Declension

First declension, with locative.

References

• Thermopylae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press