Eritrea

See also: eritrea and Erítrea

English

Map of Eritrea.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (Italian Eritrea, literally the Erythraean colony), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)), from Latin erythraeus (reddish), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, red).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪə
    • (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
    1. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s)
    2. (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
    3. (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Breton

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Eritrea f

  1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]
  • (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea f

  1. Eritrea

Further reading

  • Eritrea in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • Eritrea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (Italian Eritrea, literally the Erythraean colony), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)), from Latin erythraeus (reddish), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, red).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌeː.riˈtreː.aː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Eri‧trea
  • Rhymes: -eːaː

Proper noun

Eritrea n

  1. Eritrea

Derived terms


Finnish

Etymology

From Italian Eritrea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeritreɑ/, [ˈe̞rit̪ˌre̞ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -eɑ
  • Syllabification(key): E‧rit‧re‧a

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Declension

Inflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Eritrea
genitive Eritrean
partitive Eritreaa
illative Eritreaan
singular plural
nominative Eritrea
accusative nom. Eritrea
gen. Eritrean
genitive Eritrean
partitive Eritreaa
inessive Eritreassa
elative Eritreasta
illative Eritreaan
adessive Eritrealla
ablative Eritrealta
allative Eritrealle
essive Eritreana
translative Eritreaksi
instructive
abessive Eritreatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Eritrea (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person Eritreani Eritreamme
2nd person Eritreasi Eritreanne
3rd person Eritreansa

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (Italian Eritrea, literally the Erythraean colony), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)), from Latin erythraeus (reddish), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, red).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eʁiˈtʁeː.a/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)

  1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa)

Derived terms


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛritrɛɒ]
  • Hyphenation: Erit‧rea
  • Rhymes:

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Eritrea
accusative Eritreát
dative Eritreának
instrumental Eritreával
causal-final Eritreáért
translative Eritreává
terminative Eritreáig
essive-formal Eritreaként
essive-modal
inessive Eritreában
superessive Eritreán
adessive Eritreánál
illative Eritreába
sublative Eritreára
allative Eritreához
elative Eritreából
delative Eritreáról
ablative Eritreától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Eritreáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Eritreáéi
Possessive forms of Eritrea
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Eritreám
2nd person sing. Eritreád
3rd person sing. Eritreája
1st person plural Eritreánk
2nd person plural Eritreátok
3rd person plural Eritreájuk
  • eritreai

Interlingua

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Italian

Etymology

First used as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (Italian Eritrea, literally the Erythraean colony), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)), from Latin erythraeus (reddish), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, red).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l‿e.riˈtrɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa

Proper noun

l'Eritrea f

  1. Eritrea (a country in Africa)

Descendants

Anagrams


Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: E‧ri‧tre‧a

Proper noun

Eritrea f

  1. Eritrea

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Eritrea

  1. Eritrea (country)

See also


Swedish

Proper noun

Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)

  1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa)
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