Épire

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Ēpīrus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.piʁ/
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Proper noun

Épire f

  1. Epirus (a historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania)
  2. Epirus (a geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece)

Derived terms

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