Aethiopia

Aethiopia

1. (historical) Alternative form of Ethiopia (“a broad region of eastern Africa”)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯.tʰiˈo.pi.a/, [äe̯t̪ʰiˈɔpiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.tiˈo.pi.a/, [et̪iˈɔːpiä]

Aethiopia f sg (genitive Aethiopiae); first declension

1. Ethiopia, a broad region of eastern Africa.
2. (New Latin) Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• aethiopicus
• aethiopus
• aethiopius
• Aethiopissa
• Aethiops

• English: Ethiopia
• French: Éthiopie
• Italian: Etiopia
• Portuguese: Etiópia
• Spanish: Etiopía

• “Aethiopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Aethiopia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette