Pieria

See also: pieriä

English

Proper noun

Pieria

A regional unit in north-central Greece.
(historical) A province of Roman Syria.

Translations

Greek prefecture

Arabic: بييريا‎
Bulgarian: Пиерия (Pierija)
Dutch: Piëria
Esperanto: Pierio
French: Piérie (fr) f
German: Pieria
Greek: Πιερία (el) f (Piería)
Italian: Pieria f
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Latin: Pieria f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Pieria

Nynorsk: Piería
Portuguese: Pieria f
Romanian: Pieria f
Russian: Пие́ри́я f (Pijéríja)
Spanish: Pieria
Swedish: Pieria

German

Proper noun

Pieria n (proper noun, genitive Pierias or (optionally with an article) Pieria)

Pieria (a regional unit in north-central Greece)
Pieria (a province of the Roman Empire)

Declension

Declension of Pieria [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Pieria
genitive	des	Pierias, Pieria¹
dative	dem	Pieria
accusative	das	Pieria

¹Optionally with an article.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πιερία (Piería).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈe.ri.a/, [piːˈɛriä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈe.ri.a/, [piˈɛːriä]

Proper noun

Pīeria f sg (genitive Pīeriae); first declension

(geography) A district in Macedonia
(geography) A district of Syria

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pīeria
Genitive	Pīeriae
Dative	Pīeriae
Accusative	Pīeriam
Ablative	Pīeriā
Vocative	Pīeria

Related terms

Pīericus

References

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

Portuguese

Proper noun

Pieria f

Pieria (Greek prefecture)

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