Ephesus

Borrowed from Latin Ephesus, from Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛfɪsəs/

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Ephesus

2. (historical) An ancient Greek city in Anatolia, near Selçuk in modern İzmir Province, Turkey.

• Ephesian
• Ephesians

• pushees

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.pʰɛ.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.fe.s̬us]

Ephesus f sg (genitive Ephesī); second declension

1. Ephesus (an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, near Selçuk in modern İzmir Province, Turkey)

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Catalan: Efes
• French: Éphèse
• Italian: Efeso
• Portuguese: Éfeso
• Romanian: Efes
• Spanish: Éfeso
• → English: Ephesus
• → Irish: Eifeasas
• → Old Irish: Ephis
  • Irish: Eiphis, Eifís (both obsolete; replaced by re-borrowed term Eifeasas)

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